Bob, I am/was aware of the difference with Excell and Notepad and did open the test export file in notepad and saw the double quotes. I guess I just neve verbalized it... anyway, you are right they are there.

I'll go along with your theory and test, but just for discussion sake, I would agree totally, that the qoutes are needed, except for the fact that every other field is imported correctly.

I will also test, exporting in an Excel format and then re-importing from that file. I'm going to use the appt I sent you as the test, so if it work, you may see anotgher appt from me.

Hey one other thing... Export can also be found under FILE/OPTIONS/ADVANCED/EXPORT....

Thanks.

dave