I was just playing with the code you posted. I know this is stupid but could you give an example of the 'do something'? where would I find more info on this?

>Jim
> The most memory efficient method for accessing data from a VFP database into Excel would be to use ADO.
>
>Here's sample code:
>
>Set oConn = CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
>
>'MYDSN is an ODBC system data source
>oConn.Open "MYDSN","",""
>
>Set oRecs = CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset")
>oRecs.Open "Select * from customer", oConn, 3,3
>Do while not oRecs.Eof
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> 'do something with the records
>
> ' skip
> oRecs.movenext
>
>Loop
>
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>Rod