>Yes, in Excel cyrillic fields display just fine. I can even copy/paste
>them form Excel to Word and Outlook via ctrl+c/ctl+v.
>
>>>I've an Excel sheet that contains russian text fields which need
>>>to be imported into a VFP table. Whenever I try to fetch a value
>>>from a cyrillic field I just get a string of question marks. The
>>>number of question marks corresponds to the length of the field
>>>value.
>>>
>>>This is the code line that retrieves the value
>>>

>>>cFld = oExcel.Range("A1:A1").Value
>>>

>>>
>>>First I thought I had selected a font that couldn't display Russian
>>>characters, but checking the result string with ASC() shows that it only contains a set of 63s ('?').
>>>I'm obviously missing something here.
>>
>>What happens if you open that spreadsheet in Excel? Can you see text in it?
>>Mark
I will try to check what is a defaut font FOX uses for its environment and if that font is not capable of showing cyrillic fonts change to one which it is.
Mark