>>>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.
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>But they are single user. If another user does the same at the same time excel complains
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I'm opening them readonly. Forgot about that - thanks for jumping in.