>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).

I'm not positive, but it could have launched VFP itself. I know before VFP was added to Visual Studio, it was possible to get a version of Office that included Fox over Access.

>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 .

Using ADO and OLE Automation you can usually get what you want. Its not that they decided to remove the VFP specific stuff, the situation appears to be that they are more interested in creating ways to get to Office data from many types of clients, thats why any code you use to get Office data (I'm assuming Excel and Access stuff) is portable to ASP/VB/VC++/VFP.

It makes alot more sense.