Hi Andrus

IMPORT FROM blhk01 TYPE xl8 works for me in VFP7 SP1 ...
when the Excel file is not open. Else I get a C5 like you.

HTH
Markus




>I got a C5 error on the following commands (VFP 7 SP 1 )
>
>IMPORT FROM blhk01 xl8
>IMPORT FROM blhk01 xl5
>IMPORT FROM blhk01 TYPE xl8
>IMPORT FROM blhk01 xls
>
>the source excel file is at www.eetasoft.ee/importc5dem.zip
>
>Is it possible to read this file from vfp ?
>
>I don't have excel installed. I tried staroffice, but it cannot
>read more than 32000 rows.