>Is there a maximum size xls that can be imported into VFP

In practice, you can't use VFP import command to import xls data (unless you have xls files that are at least a decade old). I don't remember the exact version it supported but probably it was max 64K rows.

IMHO, you are losing time on the same subject. Check http://www.foxite.com/archives/0000153776.htm to get data from excel.