I have Excel97 at work and it can open a file made with:

COPY TO myfile.xls TYPE FOX2X

Note the extension. This allows you to double-click on the file in windows Explorer and bring up Excel by association!

Dana


>>Thanks for your quick reply.
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>>How do I get the fields to go into separate columns automatically.
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>Sorry, I didn't notice the part about all the data being in Column1. However, I have opened comma-delimited files and they were split successfully. I am not sure what is going on. Perhaps you should explicitly give the CSV extension.
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>One alternative would be to use the "parse" option in Excel.
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>Another would be to switch to DBF format instead of CSV. From VFP:
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>copy to temp.dbf type foxplus
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>FoxPlus is the dBASE III format; Excel can't read VFP tables directly.