>>Thank you Borislav but can this be done automatically during the append command or should I open the structure
>>Thank you
>
>No,
>APPEND FROM assumes that you already have a table/cursor created, where VFP will put the records.

As said by Borislav a table must exist for APPEND FROM

What u can do is create cursor append into this cursor and then copy

CREATE CURSOR ....

APPEND FROM ....

COPY TO ...