I don't have a good answer, but an alternative: VFP can produce Excel .XLS files... look at "COPY TO ... TYPE XLS" and "COPY TO ... TYPE XL5".... These do work with Excel 97.

>I have a small program that create a CSV file from a dbf (Copy to ... Type CSV ) and then open it with Excel. This works fine with Excel 2000 but when i use Excel 97 the result shows up only in one cell whithout conversion.
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>Is this a known issue ? Can excel 97 open CSV Files ?
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>Any help will be greatly appreciated.