>I have a problem while using the append from command with an excel spreadsheet. For some reason the label line is also appended.
>I have tried the following for condition
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>for ALLTRIM(UPPER)!='NAME'
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>it still appends the title line in the excell spreadsheet. Any reason why?

The label line is part of the file. How is VFP going to know if you have 0, 1, or 20 label lines?