Yes, I suspected that aar was not a part of the path, but only the file name. :-)

>hi,
>thank you,it works as under,
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>

>set defa to e:\bills1\bills1
>thisform.text1.Value='aar'
>LOCAL lcTableName
>lcTableName = thisform.text2.value
>CREATE TABLE (lcTableName) (a C(50), b C(70),c C(50), d C(50),e C(70), f C(70),s C(70), l C(70),char9 c(70), char10 c(40),;
>char11 C(10), char12 C(60),char13 C(50), char14 C(40),char15 C(10), char16 C(10),char17 C(10), char18 C(70),char19 C(10),;
>char20 C(10),char21 C(10), char22 C(40),char23 C(10), char24 C(10),char25 C(10), char26 C(70),char27 C(10), char28 C(10) NOCPTRANS)&& you put ; before NOCPTRANS get error message.
>lcTableName = thisform.text1.value
>APPEND FROM (lcTableName) TYPE XLS
>*** USE (thisform.text2.value) exclusive ALIAS SomeAlias && Not necessary, this table is already selected
>GO TOP
>DELETE NEXT 6
>
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