>Craig, I have a bit of a problem with the append routine. Since I've noticed that you'vebeen talking about, hopefully I can look upon your expertise for assistance. I'm receiving an 'invalid excel file format' error. This is the statement that is causing this error:
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>append from "C:\Data\Moves.xls" type xls
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>and this is being appended into a FoxPro database file (v2.6)
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>Any hints as to where I'm going wrong?


I've found that changes in formatting in Excel can change the way the data looks in VFP.