>As everyone here knows, VFP can't APPEND from an XLSX file, nor from an XLS 97-2003 that was created in Excel 2007 or later. We are forced to save Excel files in Excel 5.0/95 (which limits us to 16384 rows) or CSV. We can also use Excel automation, which involves a decent amount of coding.
> I have figured out a simple way to save a spreadsheet as XLS 97-2003 (with up to 65536 rows) with Office 2007/10/13, and still have Visual FoxPro be able to open it. If you have a recent version of Office installed, you can use this Visual FoxPro code to convert an unreadable (to FoxPro) XLS or XLSX file to a readable 97-2003 XLS file:
>
>LPARAMETERS tXLFilename
>
>strDB = "C:\Jerry\Work\Temp1.accdb"
>objAccess = CreateObject("Access.Application")
>
>objAccess.NewCurrentDatabase(strDB)
>objAccess.DoCmd.TransferSpreadsheet(0, 9, "Table1", tXLFilename, .T.)
>objAccess.DoCmd.TransferSpreadsheet(1, 8, "Table1", STRTRAN(UPPER(tXLFilename), ".XLSX", ".Xls"), .T.)
>
>objAccess.Quit()
>objAccess = NULL
>RELEASE objAccess
>DELETE FILE "C:\Jerry\Work\Temp1.accdb"
>
>RETURN
>
> Apparently, Microsoft didn't really need to corrupt the 97-2003 XLS files for 2007/10/13.
>
>Jerry

I prefer Craig Boyd's approach, which doesn't even require that Office is installed. http://www.sweetpotatosoftware.com/spsblog/2008/09/30/UsingExcel2007FileFormatsInVFP90.aspx