The Upsizing Wizard in Sedna is great for this. The UI and engine are separate, so you can figure out all the steps and write a program that calls the engine to do all the work for you.

>Hi folks, thanks for your reply.
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>I am looking for an ongoing utility to import data, ratther than a once off
>This is for a .net app which will be taking data from a vfp/excel file on an ongoing basis... sometinkg lile appe from MyExcel type xls
>I will start another thread for this.
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>Thanks again for your help.
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>Regards,
>Gerard