Hi, My husband came up with the quickest solution, and I thought I'd tell everybody. It is a matter of language settings in the control panel. My computer used the Dutch language, and although Excel settings were English it still used those language settings for the import of files. But when I set the entire computer settings to English Excel did read the dots instead of comma's. Thanks for the helpful emails that I received, Regards, Rianne Appel - Meulenbroek, H.A.J.A. Assistant professor Eindhoven University of Technology Chair of Real Estate Management & Development Vertigo 8.30, Den Dolech 2 PO Box 513 5600 MB Eindhoven The Netherlands mail: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> tel: +31(0)40-247 2092 fax: +31(0)40 243 8488