>>Fred,
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>>What works best for the reverse - selecting a bunch of cells in Excel and copying the rows into a table or an array?
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>>Do you just make a string and look for the tabs to parse into data?
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>>>Check out _VFP.DataToClip() and Paste in Excel and tell me if you still think it's slow.
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>Cindy,
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>I've never had a need to go the other way, but that sounds like it will work. Doesn't Excel have the ability to send data directly to .DBF's? I don't do a whole lot with Excel, I've really just played with it.

I was thinking to copy some selected cells, but If I copy to CSV and append the whole thing to a cursor, and then pick out what I want (using VAL(), etc. to change from char to Num) that should work.

Thanks for helping me brainstorm. ;-)