It was limitation of earlier versions of Excel that made it into VFP. In VFP8 and later you can export up to 65,535 rows (again Excel limit).

>Hi All,
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>I have a client who is running VFP 5.0 (yes, still 5.0). They are encountering a "truncation" of their data when attempting to use COPY TO or EXPORT. They only get a little over 16,000 records in the result file/table.
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>Honestly, I use other means for moving and transforming data in my apps so this is something that I do not have a quick answer to. Is this simply a limitiation of VFP 5.0? Is this problem still present in later versions of VFP?
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>Any info would be greatly apprecated.
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>Thanks!
>Paul