Thanks. I'll try this out.

>>I have a table with a general field that would contain Excel worksheets. What I need is a way to extract the contents of the general field to their native format. I used APPEND GENERAL genfield FROM xlfile. What's the "opposite" of this command?
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>>Regards,
>>
>>jun
>>ramoneem@mail.aramco.com.sa
>As John said you could modify general and saveas or do it programmatically (your mother tongue is also not English so I got your question how to save a copy ) :

use myTable  && Contains a general field
>oform = createobject("form")
>with oForm
>  .addobject("olbW","Oleboundcontrol")
>  .height = 420
>  .width = 620
>  with .olbW
>   .top = 0
>   .left = 400
>   .height = 400
>   .width = 600
>   .controlsource = mytable.mygenfield    && Embedded doc or xls
>   .object.saveas(cFilename)
>  endwith
>  .release
>endwith
>

>Cetin