>More polished than my 1liner for sure ;-) Quick nosy question - did you compare your approach of writing out to file and concatenating header line with that file to _clip to inserting header line and then inserting one row down directly fro .DataToClip(,,3)? On current SSD probably irrelevant, but it perked my "find best way" character deficit ;-)

Did that regularly 10-12 years ago, and it was drastically faster. And it's not the amount of data (SSD being irrelevant for the case) but in the sheer amount of COM/DOM addressing when playing automation cell-by-cell or massaging a csv to do exactly what we want and not be misinterpreted. _vfp.datatoclip(,,3) combined with oExcel.Range.Paste() is the fastest I've found so far.

>Quickscanned vfp2Excel, but have not done enough with .RS to form opinion.

You should, it's a thriving domain - I frequent many .rs sites :)