Hi Nombo,

I'm used to working with FoxPro DBFs which have a limit of 256 characters in
a Character field (for longer strings use a Memo field) and a limit of 10
characters for field names. Maybe DBF IV is the same.

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Cindy Winegarden MCSD, Microsoft Visual FoxPro MVP
www.cindywinegarden.com


"Nombo" wrote in message
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I am trying to save an xls (97-2002) file as a DBF IV format in order to
use
it in ArcGIS. The dbf format trucates my text (in addition to the column
heading) and converts the cell text format into a number format. Is there
any way around this? Is there a maximum character length for DBF cells?