>Ivo,
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>This has been discussed some in previous threads. If you want to copy more than the 16,000 records you need to copy to Excel97 format. But, the copy to command does not support Excel 97.
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>If you go back to 5/4/99 and view the Excel97 non-support continues thread, you will find a solution using objects discussed by Christof Lange and Bruce Campbell.

Hey, and here I am :) The reason I didn't mention this earlier, though, is that I think that "paste" method may have trouble with a "large" number of records. It's kind of slow even with small tables. It may be worth a try, however...