Colin,

You are a gentleman. Thank you very much for the tip. This is what I needed.

Does anyone have a technique to copy the contents of a *.dbf file with memo fields to an Excel spreadsheet?
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>Use OLE Automation of excel. Here is a small example:
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>SELECT table
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>ox=CREATEOBJECT('Excel.Application')
>ox.workbooks.add()
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>mnrowadd=0
>SCAN
>	ox.Activeworkbook.Worksheets(1).Cells(1+mnrowadd,1).Value=Field1
>	ox.Activeworkbook.Worksheets(1).Cells(1+mnrowadd,2).Value=Field2
>	ox.Activeworkbook.Worksheets(1).Cells(1+mnrowadd,3).Value=Field3
>	ox.Activeworkbook.Worksheets(1).Cells(1+mnrowadd,4).Value=Field4
>	ox.Activeworkbook.Worksheets(1).Cells(1+mnrowadd,5).Value=Field5
>	ox.Activeworkbook.Worksheets(1).Cells(1+mnrowadd,6).Value=Field6
>	mnrowadd=mnrowadd+1
>ENDSCAN
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>ox.ActiveWorkbook.SaveAs(%filename%)
>ox.Quit
>RELEASE ox
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>HTH