>>It has bugged me for a long time that Excel does not offer the possibility to open VFP files directly. It does read dBase files, but to do that you must copy tables TYPE FOX2X.
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>Rather than using COPY TO I use _VFP.DataToClip(,,3) and paste into Excel.
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>>Has anybody mentioned this to MS before?
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>Excel doesn't read SQL Server tables "directly" either. Does this bother you?

Just had the opportunity to use your method Cindy. Brilliant! Thank you.

Alex