You might be able to modify the format from excel wizard. Right click on the column name and change the format to Character
![jthi_0-1708509374234.png jthi_0-1708509374234.png](https://community.jmp.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/61299i34D97CA1BA669AA2/image-size/medium?v=v2&px=400)
And you might get something like this to your import script
Column Numeric Format(Index(0), Column Name(Date), Datatype("Character"))
-Jarmo