Rich,

You either have to save it as Excel 95 or see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/949529

>Our computers are still using Excel 2003. We have several places in our applications where we IMPORT spreadsheets. One of the users is testing Excel 2007. When he tries to IMPORT a spreadsheet he gets
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>Invalid File Format
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>He tried saving as 97-2003 format and got the same problem
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>He was successful when he saved as Workbook.
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>Is there anything we can do to get VFP 8 to recognize the Excel 2007 format?
>(VFP 9 is not an option at the moment)
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