Thanks, but that saves to the default XLS which is restricted to the 16k line limit

>Try: COPY TO FILE yourfilename.xls TYPE XLS
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>>It seems that the documentation for VFP6 states that you can use the command:
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>>COPY TO FILE TYPE XL8
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>>This does not seem to work, can comeone offer some suggestions.
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>>We are attempting to copy rather large subset of a table to excel and are faced with the 16k line limit which cuses much grief. We need to be able to export to xls up to 50k records.
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>>Thanks for your help.