>This is my VFP code - comes up with unrecognised command verb on first line - what am I doing wrong?
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>oXL = CreateObject("Excel.Application")
>oXL.Workbooks.Open("c:\aatemp\global.XLSX")
>oXL.ActiveWorkbook.Save("c:\aatemp\globalnew.xls", 56)
>oXL.Quit()
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Do you have Excel installed? What is the version?

I just tested this code

oXL = CreateObject("Excel.Application")
oXL.Workbooks.Open(GETFILE('xlsx'))
*oXL.ActiveWorkbook.Save("c:\aatemp\globalnew.xls", 56)
oXL.Quit()

worked fine for me, no errors.