>>>Now, what I'm asking is whether or not it is true that vfp's IMPORT command will fail for Excel 2007 files that have been produced with the normal Save option. And if that is confirmed, whether or not it is regarded as a compatibility issue. Yes?
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>>Peter, I also have Office 2007 and think the Office team has chosen to do a big no-no for their customers. From what I can see, in Office 2007 the default format for the save is xlsx, and it seems a user cannot choose a different default, such as xls (this is what I consider the no-no.) They are taking a page from the VB team and ignoring backward compatibility. Frankly, except for the fact that I wanted OneNote, I am sorry that I upgrgaded, and to Ultimate ($$$) too.
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>>In contrast, the VFP team has always tried hard not to break previous code, even to the extreme of leaving what might be considered "erroneous" behavior that some developer might be counting on. I am thinking of REPLACE OtherAlias.MyField, which fails if EOF() is true. As you know the VFP team provided REPLACE MyField IN OtherAlias as workaround. That is acting responsibly. I believe the VFP team has acted *very* responsibly to VFP developers, and think it is unfair to suggest otherwise.
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>>Alex
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>Alex,
>I have Office 2007 too, but I have no problems with saving Excel and Word documents as old Office formats. They always ask me when I save the document for the first time for the name AND for the type.

You can choose XLS as the format but XLSX is the default that comes up. I am talking about making XLS the default format (for convenience's sake) if that is the format you want to use all the time. There may be good reasons you may want XLS format, such as the one discussed on this thread, or to avoid the need for collaborators to download the Compatibility Pack for 2007 Office Word, Excel and PowerPoint File Formats.