thank you for reply,

if you have Excel installed? yes i have

but i need to build vfp form to let user do that

>I don't have the time to give you any code, but if you have Excel installed, I would use automation. If Excel is not installed, you must do it in two steps. First read the data into a cursor, and then export the cursor into a txt file.
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>>thank you for reply,
>>
>>i try it i get error message
>>Microsoft Excel file format is invalid , when i use vfp wizard i convert this excel sheet to txt file no proplem,
>>
>>when i use wizard to convert excel to dbf i get same error
>>
>>i get error for one column have names, if i remove this column it works ,
>>
>>but i need to do it via vfp code
>>
>>thanks
>>
>>>You can do this in a million different ways, one of the the easiest is this:

>>>Import from yourexcelfile xls
>>>_vfp.DataToClip(,,1)
>>>StrToFile(_cliptext,'yourtextfile.txt')

>>>If this is not how you want the txt file to look like, you must provide more info. Since a txt file is just a text file, there is no standard for this file.
>>>
>>>
>>>>hi all,
>>>>
>>>>i need help to convert excel sheet to txt via vfp code
>>>>
>>>>thanks