>Cecil, I was going to propose try...catch again until I saw the VFP6 comment...
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>Just for interest, why do you need exclusive access? If there is a chance the target table is in use by others, could you bring the excel spreadsheet into a temporary repository and do a SCAN...INSERT...ENDSCAN?

Looks like he is zapping the original table thus the exclusive use.

BTW, Cecil, I think you didn't see my response to you where I pointed you the ready to use function OpenTble. It has all the functionality you're looking for and it was written for VFP6.