It's not the VFP ODBC driver you need installed; it's the Office ODBC driver(s). I don't think that gets installed by default with Office but I could be wrong as I haven't installed Office in quite some time. You have to dive into the advanced installation stuff, iirc.

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rk

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From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Jeff Johnson

Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2014 12:37 PM

To: profoxtech@leafe.com

Subject: Re: [NF] Excel 2003 on Windows 8

Okay, I found VFP ODBC drivers and installed them. Now it works with the below connection string with one slight problem

lnsqlhandle = SQLSTRINGCONNECT([Provider=Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0;

Data Source="Excel.dsn"; DBQ=] + lcspreadsheet + [; Extended Properties="Excel 8.0; HDR=YES";])

The Data Source must be incorrect because a window pops up and says select data source. I select Excel.dsn and it works.

<rant>I can't believe the amount of time spent getting things to work on Windows 8 that worked fine on Windows 7! ODBC, Remote Desktop, simple network connections. Sheesh!</rant>

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Jeff

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