>I was just thinking about this sort of thing the other day when I remembered that Office 97 had a Visual FoxPro toolbar button (I'm not sure what this did).
>It's gone from that to being almost impossible to turn Office data into foxdata from within Office (You can but they still call it DBase, why not change the caption to "Visual FoxPro (*.dbf)" from dBase IV .

Chris;

Perhaps the person at Microsoft has his or her head stuck at 1989 and thus dBase IV. Sometimes the person working in the next cubicle does not know what you are doing. In a large corporation it is not unusual for people, products and divisions to take different paths. Could there be a communications problem between products? Impossible! This is all by design or rather lack of design.

Tom