>Using VFP 5.0:
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>The following is documented behavior, as stated in http://www.microsoft.com/kb/articles/q109/8/44.htm.
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>The EXPORT and COPY TO commands, when used with spreadsheets (I use them with TYPE XL5), add the table's field name to the first row of each spreadsheet.
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>Thus, if I had a table with a field name of FIELD_1, with one record having the value 'testing', and I EXPORTed it using EXPORT TO tmp TYPE XL5, the spreadsheet would have FIELD_1 in the first row, and 'testing' in the second.
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>Has anyone come up with any methods to avoid this? I do NOT want the table's field names exported, too.
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>Thanks,
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>Jody

Jody, I know EXCEL imports from text files, both delimited and SDF. Could you do your export as a text file and let the user do the import? That way there would be no 'fields' to leave field names behind.

Barbara