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9498 contains Excel constants. You need it for the following program.
The result will be exactly the same as if you export manually from Excel. For best results, the spreadsheet should have a first row with column (field) names.
#include include\xl97cons.h
oExcel = CreateObject("Excel.Application")
oExcel.Visible = 1
oExcel.Workbooks.Open(fullpath("") + "sample.xls")
erase sample.dbf
oExcel.ActiveWorkbook.SaveAs(fullpath("") + "sample.dbf", xlDBF3)
oExcel.Activeworkbook.Close(0)See also: SET CPDIALOG.
HTH, Hilmar.
>I attempted to export directly from Excel, but it cut off a lot of the data. i looked up the automation, but I do not understand it's process. I am attemping to create the table first and append from, but it will not let me append from an xls file.
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