I cannot get Excel to see my data source ( Fox Pro Tables). I have tried to
update, and add a VFP driver(Which is already installed) but I cannot get it
to list in my available data drivers. I get stuck at the"you must have the
lates update for FoxPro visual driver.....) HELP! I cannot get my piviot
tables completed.....

Hi Bob,

The latest FoxPro and Visual FoxPro ODBC drivers are downloadable from
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vfoxpro/downloads/updates. Its version
6.01.8629.01. If you're using Windows 2000 it may not allow you to install
the latest driver, supposedly because W2K already has it.

Just to be sure, you're working with FoxPro "free" tables, not a DBC (i.e. a
DBC file is not present (usually) in the folder where the tables are? Also,
do you know what version of FoxPro the tables were created with? New data
features added in VFP7 and above can't be used with ODBC. However, no matter
which of the later versions of FoxPro the tables were created with, if none
of the new features were used then they can be read with ODBC.

--
Cindy Winegarden MCSD, Microsoft Visual Foxpro MVP
www.cindywinegarden.com
Blog: http://spaces.msn.com/members/cindywinegarden


"Bob" wrote in message
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I cannot get Excel to see my data source ( Fox Pro Tables). I have tried to
update, and add a VFP driver(Which is already installed) but I cannot get
it
to list in my available data drivers. I get stuck at the"you must have the
lates update for FoxPro visual driver.....) HELP! I cannot get my piviot
tables completed.....