Change in data element

dear all ,
I have changed my data element of a field in a table , previously that was N 5 length , now i have changed to P decimal 3 ..if i move this to qas server , this table already in qas with datas,, when i try to moving that to qas i cannot move the request to qas but i can see the changes in table i mean data element changed to P in qas , but when i try to see contents in se11 , i am getting TABLE IS NOT FOUND IN DATABASE , and i tried to adjust thro SE14 , ther was error log and i tried to unlock the table but it showing 'data will be lost ' . what should i do to rectify that .
Thanks

Hi peter,
what do you mean. Possible to upload stuff via excel? If so here is a link
http://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/display/ABAP/ABAP+code+snippet+to+upload+Excel+file+into+an+internal+table+and+display+it+in+alv+format
But I'm pretty sure you know that...I think I just do not got the question
~Florian

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