>Hi
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>I'm creating an excel spreadsheet and want to adjust the columnwidth to the size of some text.
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>the line
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>.sheets(lnsheet).Columns(CHR(ncol+64 )+":"+CHR(ncol+64)).ColumnWidth=lncolwidth
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>works perfectly if I set excel to be visible.
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>But if I set excel to be not visible the same line gives me a type mismatch.
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>Any ideas why that is .
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>This is excel97 (be 10 years old soon)
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>Nick

Thsi works for me, BUT I have only Office 2003 installed:

LOCAL oExcel AS Excel.Application
nCol = 5
lncolwidth = 120
oExcel = NEWOBJECT([Excel.Application])
oExcel.Visible = .f.
oExcel.Workbooks.Add()
oExcel.ActiveWorkbook.sheets(1).Columns(CHR(nCol+64)).ColumnWidth=120
oExcel.Visible = .t.