1. Is service pack 3 installed?
2. Try using () instead of &
3. Try changing goofy things, like the name of the filename variable or the type of file that you are importing.
4. If there are dates in temptabl.dbf try changing them to character fields.
5. Good luck, son!

>I've the all too familiar error:
>Exception code=C0000005
>Called from - form1.cmdimport.click line 5
>{c:\mydir\forms\myform.sct}
>
>Here is what my command button click code looks like on my form:
>LOCAL lcFileName
>USE \mydir\data\temptabl IN 0 SHARED
>SELECT temptabl
>lcFileName = ALLT(THISFORM.txtFileName.Value)
>APPEND FROM &lcFileName XL8
>
>I get the error on the APPEND FROM line and that throws me out of VFP running of the form. I have a filename for an EXCEL spreadsheet which is displayed on the form after I do the "Open File" command button on my form just before I press this "Import File" button. The error happens on the "Import File" button. All I am trying to do is take an Excel spreadsheet and append it to a table that has prestructured fields that will contain all of the spreadsheets columns. Or is my table that I am appending to setup wrong? Usually I can work around this error, but not this time.
>
>Any ideas? Thanks for the help.
>
>Steve Kramer
>Kramer & Kramer Design
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