>Thierry
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>Thanks - that worked for the client's W7 machine ...... but not for the W8 ! - both running Excel 2010. I will investigate a bit more.... and might be back for more help in due course.
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>Thanks for assistance so far.
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>Barry
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>>what about
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>>COPY TO C:\myfolder\mysheet.XLS TYPE XL5
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FWIW, with COPY TO, you should pretty much always use XL5 rather than XLS. XLS is Excel 2.0 format; many things have changed since then, most importantly, handling of dates and maximum # of rows (and columns, I think).
Tamar
