>>There is yet another problem (this time coming from my colleague). He is asking is it possible to read Excel without having Excel and other stuff installed.
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>>My current code is based on Craig Boyd Excel2VFP utility. I need to read Excel sheets and insert them into cursors.
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>Check
>http://praisachion.blogspot.bg/2015/06/append-from-xlsx.html
>http://praisachion.blogspot.bg/2017/08/importfromxlsx-40.html

These links don't give much info. Did you try them, do you know what the code is based on and how it works? And also who is that person?