Hi, Peter!
Memo fields are ignored in any way of exporting from VFP to outside except exporting into XML or into DBF.
IMO the only way is to convert the memo fields contents into a character field - but this is limited to 254 bytes.
An other idea is to connect to excel using
CREATEOBJECT( "excel.application" )
and to deal with OLE automation to pump the data into Excel and to save it as an XLS within Excel!
SeBaFlu