>>I missed that part. You might have to append these into a table with the date field as character, and then change the field type in VFP.
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>That was on the agenda - I just wanted to confirm that this was an "issue" with APPEND FROM - no point re-inventing the wheel if I was missing something obvious!
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>Thanks for chiming in Fred.

I've heard tell that there was a problem with date fields and APPEND FROM, but I've never seen it. Probably because most of the date fields I deal with have either today's or yesterday's date in them.