>>Try changing your LOCAL line to:
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>>Local loExcel as Excel.Application, loSheet as Excel.WorkSheet
>
>Thanks a lot. It works so far for loExcel, but not for loSheet. However, I can go down the hierarchy in many cases (starting with loExcel), to see further properties.

Register Excel using the IntelliSense Manager and you should get IntelliSense for all of its classes.

Tamar