http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.office.interop.excel(office.11).aspx
The reason you got the error after adding the "Imports" statement is that the Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel Namespace also contains a FONT and a POINT. Before you added that, Visual Studio knew that you wanted to use the System.Drawing namespace...once you added the imports, it wasn't sure anymore, so now you have to tell it what you want.