>>Is there a way to get Office 2007 (word/excel) to open a VFP 9.0 DBF?
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>>(I know how to save a dbf in compatible formats, but I would rather not have to do that.)
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>Why?

Most of the client machines have excel on them, only mine has VFP on it.

We are using a third party software that stores files in VFP format it would be nice for clients to be able to open them in excel. (Users damaging/altering the data is not an issue in this case.)

I can do this in 2002 excel and word with no problem.

Also mail merging directly from a DBF is nicer than having to export it first.