>>>

>>>oXL = CreateObject("Excel.Application")
>>>oXL.Workbooks.Open("YourFile.XLS")
>>>oXL.ActiveWorkbook.Save("YourFile", nDesiredFormat)
>>>oXL.Quit()
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>>>

>>>
>>>Use 56 for Excel 97 format. That said, I don't think newer versions can actually produce an Excel 97 format that VFP can read. You have to go back to Excel 5 format for that to work; I think the constant you want is 39.
>>>
>>>Tamar
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>>Tamar
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>>I don't understand - the file I am trying to convert is an xslx file to xls file - will your code do that?
>
>It should - just use xlsx as extension in the sample. Why you don't want to try that code first to test?

This is my VFP code - comes up with unrecognised command verb on first line - what am I doing wrong?

oXL = CreateObject("Excel.Application")
oXL.Workbooks.Open("c:\aatemp\global.XLSX")
oXL.ActiveWorkbook.Save("c:\aatemp\globalnew.xls", 56)
oXL.Quit()