Rene,

Is the cursor small enough that you use OLE automation of Excel to populate the spreadsheet? It would take longer to run but you'll get the right result.

I think you could also automate Excel to open the DBF and SaveAs XLS.

>I'm doing a "copy to myfile type xls" command from VFP 6. There is a date field in my source file (a cursor in this case). In Excel (Excel 97) the resulting field is not formatted as a date field, but as a text field. Changing it in Excel (using the Format field command) works fine, but sorting on the field sorts it 01/02/67, 01/03/52, 01/04/87, etc.
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>Any idea if there is a workaround for this? I've tried changing the date within VFP to a different format (such as SET DATE ANSI, result = 1967.02.01), but this makes no difference.