>We have an Excel 2007 spreadsheet that we need to turn into a cursor. Excel 2007 doesn't support Save As DBF anymore so I need a different solution. My first thought was to save it as an XML file and then use VFP to create a cursor. Accordingly I tried.......
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=XMLTOCURSOR(GETFILE("xml"),"myCursor",512)

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>This "works" in the sense that a cursor gets created. Unfortunately the cursor contains the Document Properties (LastAuthor, Created, Lastsaved, Version, etc.)
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>Is there a way in Excel to Save as XML but without this information?
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>Is there a way in VFP to bypass this information and right to the "real" data?
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>Is there a better approach?

How about exporting to comma delimited format (csv ?) and then pick it up from there maybe ?
Comma delimited to cursor or dbf should be no brainer.

If it comes to worse you can always use OLE to suck out data into cursor you create yourself.