Currently, saving an Excel 2007 spreadsheet in Compatibility mode for Excel 8/2003 fails to import or append into VFP 9 as TYPE XL8. Hopefully someone in the Excel team will get that fixed. In the meantime, you can save the spreadsheet as Excel 5/95 and that will work. Of course, telling a client they have to save their work in a 12-year-old spreadsheet format limited to 16383 rows could make you look outdated... Or try saving as non-spreadsheet CSV type?