Hi Robert. Have you applied Service Pack 3? If you haven't see if it solves the problem.

>When attempting to import an Excel spreadsheet into a VFP 6.0 table, I receive a the Fatal Exception Error C0000005.
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>The file being imported was originally created in VFP with the command :
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>COPY TO filename.ext TYPE XL5
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>the file was latter edited in Excel 97 to add a second sheet which contains a pivot table.
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>The sheet I want to import is the original sheet. I have tried using each of the following commands, all with the same result.
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>APPEND FROM filename.ext XL5 SHEET sheetname
>and
>APPEND FROM filename.ext XL8 SHEET sheetname
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>Any suggestions.