>hi,
>thank you for reply,
>i get error message(file access is denied e:\bills1\bills1\xldata.dbf.
>but when i take alock at the tables i found xldata.table with data.
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>when i run the code agian i get error message "ole id is patch exception code 0 form microsoft excel.cannot access xldata.dbf".
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>if xldata.dbf have 6 fields and nan.dbf have 7 field, field 7 have a numbers ,i want to (first delete next 6 records)) and after the delete ,replace new all data from xldata.dbf to old data nan.dbf ), but keep field 7 as it is.
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>thanks.
>m.qasem

Mohammed,
I don't have an idea how you succeeded to make it error. Probably you ran it a second time after Excel created it and was in use.
Cetin