>Hi Cetin & Naomi,
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> Thanks for the suggestions, but I was hoping for some way to query the FoxPro cursor for this information rather than asking Excel because the client might be using Lotus spreadsheets. I never know in advance what type of spreadsheet they will use (although it must be one of the types supported by VFP EXPORT TO and APPEND FROM).
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> Is there any way to get the column names from the FoxPro cursor created from APPEND FROM?
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> Thanks, Chaim

Yes and No. Append from doesn't create a cursor and thus no. To do an append from cursor/table should already exist and thus you know the column names.
Cetin