Mike, I'm usually the first one to recommend XML, but in this case I don't see what it is going to buy you.

If you want user control and if you want to avoid File I/O IMHO you should drive this from Excel, not VFP.

Write a macro -- which they can call whenever they like, or you can assign to a template, or whatever. It can prompt them for a range or they can select the range before calling the macro.

if I were doing this.... I think that the macro would probably a connection to the VFP data using the OLE DB provider and dump the data directly into the range from there.

Doesn't this seem appropriate to you? It would be quite fast.

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