>As an automation newby, I pose this question;
>Whats the best way to bring an excel range of data to VFP. The data range is 2 rows by 49 columns. From VFP, I have be looping by column to test the data for correct structure and values (char or num or date), then putting the data in a VFP array. This seems cumbersum. Is there a better way?

For speed and dealing with much larger amounts of data you can save the excel data as .dbf format.