>i am trying to get vfp9 to generate xls (version office 2007) or better yet xlsx
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>right now i have been getting away with the following
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>copy file myfile.dbf to c:\myexcel.xls
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>problem is that this generates Microsoft Office Excel 97-2003 Worksheet (.xls)
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>We are now experiences problems from some Mac computers which cannot open these files.
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>Any suggestions??

Copy it as CSV file. Excel should open it w/o problems.