The VFP6 Help file that I have does not show an XL8 option.

You could probably do this using automation.

>Thanks, but that saves to the default XLS which is restricted to the 16k line limit
>
>>Try: COPY TO FILE yourfilename.xls TYPE XLS
>>
>>>It seems that the documentation for VFP6 states that you can use the command:
>>>
>>>COPY TO FILE TYPE XL8
>>>
>>>This does not seem to work, can comeone offer some suggestions.
>>>
>>>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.
>>>
>>>Thanks for your help.