Cetin,

Yes, I understand that VFP works this way, but why? It look like a bug to me:

dimension a1[200]
dimension a2[200,1]

One may then ask, how many columns there are in a1 and in a2?

?Alen(a1,2)  && returns 0   ??
?alen(a2,2)  && returns 1

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>Yuri,
>I think it's the way VFP works. Result would be the same if you appended tmp_array2 to a cursor (single row). So in effect excel sees it:
>.Range(...).Cells.Value = 'ConstantValue'
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>Whenever I work with append from or excel copy I redimension the array like this:
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>Dimension tmp_array2[Alen(tmp_array2,1),Max(1,Alen(tmp_array2,2))]
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>PS: To be more clear to Excel it's on a single row (single row, 200 columns):
>.Cells(1,1),.cells(1,Alen(tmp_array2,1)).Value = ...
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>Cetin