In database tables you are allowed to have field names more than 10 chars long. Free tables fields can only be up to 10 chars long. In either case, only the 1st 10 chars of a field name are significant. It's likely that 2 of your access field names have the same "stem" i.e. 1st 10 chars the same.

Is this it?

Terry

>hi,
>thank you for reply.
>i try to make export via access to convert to dbf ,but i get error message
>(connot define field more than once).
>
>any idea.
>
>best regards.
>m.qasem