hi all
I am trying to import from an excel file into a cursor that i have created. I use the following

mremitfile = GETFILE('xls',' ','OK',0,'Select the file')
...
APPEND FROM (mremitfile) TYPE XLS

and that works fine once the file is in 97-2003 format. the kicker is that i export this file from another location using OLE and it saves as an xls file, but if i try to import this file without saving as 97-2003 i get an error saying that the file type is not a valid xls. i would like to be able to import the file without getting the user to save as first
~M