Subject Re: Import/Export not all excel data can be imported From Akshat Kapoor <akshat.kapoor@kapoorsons.in> Date Wed, 15 Mar 2023 08:22:17 +0530 Newsgroups dbase.getting-started Good Morning James, > Found enclosed below note (from Nov 2022) regarding Excel import/export. > > Info helpful to me: "append from array" > > My question: How do I identify to dBase5 that the Excel spreadsheet is an Array?? > > The spreadsheet contains only letters and numbers. > > Developer Desktop does not recognize .xlsx files. > > What must I do to spredsheet/data for it to be recognized by dBase5 as an array. > > Help is greatly appreciated. I doubt you can open xslx files using dbase 5. In current versions also you require a software like excel to open xlsx files. oleautoclient is used to open/read data from the xlsx file using excel. Regards Akshat