>Hi,
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>After opening the excel spredsheet with "oWorkbook=Getobject('c:\my documents\sample.xls')". Then, I am trying to save the file as DBF with "oWorkbook.SaveAs('c:\mydocuments\sample.dbf',...)" but I am not successful. I am referencing the book "Microsoft Office Automation with Visual FoxPro", and it describes, I need to use the file format as an optional second parameter with command "...SaveAs...". I tried many different possible ways for the second parameter, but none had worked.
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>Thank you in advance.
>
>Kay

Kay,
1) Never use GetObject() but createobject() (search old messages for reasons detailed).
2)
-Open a new code window:
modi comm xlconstants.h
-Invoke object explorer and in explorer load excel com library
-Expand excel node
-Drag&drop constants node on to code window you opened
-Save xlconstants.h
-In code dealing with excel add:
#include xlconstants.h

Now you can say:

oExcel.ActiveWorkbook.SaveAs('c:\mydocuments\sample.dbf',xlDBF3)

3) To save as dbf you don't really need to use automation. You can use SPT or ADO.
Cetin