I have an Excel sheet with 150 columns and 8 rows of data, when I use the
SaveAs option under the File menu of Excel with Type DBF4, it creates the
dbf file with no errors. But when I try to open the file from VFP, it
indictaes the following error and cannot be opened.

vfp 9 sp1
Is there any agreement on what would be the "best, most
straightforward, most reliable, no license hassles" way to send a
simple email from foxpro?

How do you turn a Date entry into an integer?  I believe Excel can format
the date off of that number.
Jonathan Morningstar

I have a table with a few million records. The first 200,000 (along a
certain index key) were no longer necessary and so I deleted them. I am now
re-using the key values. I do have an index tag on deleted() for
optimization.

When I copy and paste a simple Excel column chart into a General Field in a
FoxPro .dbf table the y-axis label of the chart fails to appear correctly.
The y-axis label needs to be rotated 90 degrees counter-clockwise in order to
print vertically upwards beside the y-axis but it's ...

What is the maximum length of the index key in VFP6? I get an error
message "invalid key length" though it is only 105
characters.
Cass

When I do a "?" command in the command box, I get the output on the
form that was suspended when i did the "?" command.
How do I get the "?" output onto the Main Foxpro Window instead of the
form ?

I need to optimize a routine that updates some records in a big table (about
half a million records). The table has several indexes. What is faster?
Making several SEEK / REPLACE or making several UPDATE xxxx WHERE
indexexpression=mykey ?

vfp6  windows all
I have a file with a general field. It was appended a word doc in this
field. There are 5 pages in the original word doc.
I have a report form showing this general field, but only the first page is

I have a table like this
columnA  ColumnB   Amount
A1= 10          0                 -1.00
A2= 11        10                  2.00

British dates day/month/year used in examples
Imagine a date of 06/09/2004 (6th Sept 2004)
I need to identify whether the anniversary of this date falls between a
particular date range:

Is it possible to have the text in the tool tip of a form speek?
Like text to speech?
Or maybe a recording?
Thanks

I have a function key setup that I use in development.  Some of
the keys I do not use that much.  It would be handy to be able to
press, say <F12>, and get a listing of the function key assignments.
    I can not see anything for doing this.  It appears that the only

I am using VFP7
Is it possible to detect if these events are caused from an object in this
container?
Thank in advance for any help.

Sir,
I am new to VFP & want to create the XML file from data available as same is
required for import purpose in the standard software.
I can create the standard text file with ? & ?? command or with @prow(),