Thanks Borislav

on further inspection there seems to be something else causing a problem as its happened a few times when the worksheet is visible. So I'll have to keep digging.

Thanks for looking.

Nick

>>Hi
>>
>>I'm creating an excel spreadsheet and want to adjust the columnwidth to the size of some text.
>>
>>the line
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>>.sheets(lnsheet).Columns(CHR(ncol+64 )+":"+CHR(ncol+64)).ColumnWidth=lncolwidth
>>
>>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.
>>
>>Any ideas why that is .
>>
>>This is excel97 (be 10 years old soon)
>>
>>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.
>