>Every time I try to APPEND FROM an EXCEL file, which I saved in the 97-2003 version into a FoxPro table, VFP crashes. I've tried it with VFP 6.0 and 9.0. How can this happen?
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>I open the table, then execute the following command:
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>APPEND FROM C:\TEMP\ITEMCONV.XLS TYPE XLS
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>and every time, Visual FoxPro crashes. Is it Windows VISTA?

In addition to Brandon's comments, TYPE XLS means Excel 2.0 format. Even if you had a good Excel 97-2003 format file, you'd want TYPE XL5 or XL8.

Tamar