>>How to automate excel in vfp with execel file template.
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>The main point with Excel (and other Office) templates is that they give the user a new document with a given style without having the user worry about saving them as under a different name - they remain named "Document1" or "Book1". Since we're talking automation here, we can take that responsibility programmatically.
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>So, I'm not using templates, but plain xls files which I then process via automation and SaveAs something else. So, I'm using them as templates, they only aren't the special format, they're ordinary sheets. Sounds much simpler to me.

But they are single user. If another user does the same at the same time excel complains
:-)

Peter