I just recently ran into this issue, maybe some of you are aware of it
already. It pertains only to Macs running OS X Leopard. Apparently
Mac versions of FMP prior to version 9 hang when trying to ex****t data
to MS Excel format. It'll ex****t to any format but XLS. FileMaker
says this is an incompatibility between FMP and Leopard which doesn't
exist in version 9. They finally came out with a fix for it, so if
anyone has run into this it can be solved. Use the link below for an
explanation and updater from FileMaker.
http://tinyurl.com/yvkljd
hope this helps
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FileMaker Pro 8.5 Advanced on Windows XP Pro SP2
FileMaker Server 8.0 on Windows 2003 Server R2