Subject Re: Import/Export not all excel data can be imported From James Lavery <lavery@gci.net> Date Wed, 15 Mar 2023 02:40:12 -0400 Newsgroups dbase.getting-started Akshat Kapoor Wrote: > 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 > > Akshat, I've not heard of Oleautoclient.  Are you suggesting that Oleautoclient will allow me to export .XLXS data to dBASE? James