>>>For the first part:
>>>

>>>ox = CREATEOBJECT('Excel.Application')
>>>ob = ox.Workbooks.Open('YourWorkbook.xls')
>>>os1 = ob.Worksheets(1)
>>>os2 = ob.Worksheets(2)
>>>os3 = ob.Worksheets(3)
>>>

>>>Regards,
>>
>>Thanks Jim
>>
>>I can see that that references 3 worksheets within a book, but how to export my respective cursors into trhe 3 sheets?
>
>Off me memory:
>

>select cursor1
>_vfp.datatoclip(,,3)
>_cliptext=strtr(_cliptext, mline(_cliptext,1)+chr(13), "")
>os1.range("a1").select
>os1.selection.pastespecial()
>

>
>Repeat for the other two. When removing the header line, it may need cr+lf instead of just cr, don't remember.

Thanks Dragan

I tried you code, as below. It seemd a good idea BUT the data I'm dealing with is in humungous tables sometimes, like the etmdata table below. Several issues arose:
1) it took forever to fill _cliptext (as I imagined it would, given the size of the table)
2) I got some data in the w/s after the first ox.selection.pastespecial() (some 16K by the looks of it) but
os2.range("a1").select forced an OLE exception liek "Cannot access the range" (shoulda noted down, eh?)
3) the workbook failed to close (still left up as a procss in the TM, where I had to end it) and, when I looked in the w/w there was ziltch.

Nice idea but I don't know what to do about the problems. Looks like I'll need to do it in a loop, as Jim's suggestion.

Terry

LOCAL	ox  as Excel.Application
ox = CREATEOBJECT('Excel.Application')
ob = ox.Workbooks.Open('P:\FBVFP\book1.xls')
os1 = ob.Worksheets(1)
os2 = ob.Worksheets(2)
os3 = ob.Worksheets(3)

USE p:\fbvfp\officevfp\essexdata\etmdata.dbf In 0
select etmdata
_vfp.datatoclip(,,3)
_cliptext=strtr(_cliptext, mline(_cliptext,1)+chr(13), "")
os1.range("a1").select
ox.selection.pastespecial()
os2.range("a1").select
ox.selection.pastespecial()
ox.ActiveWorkBook.Close()		  
ox 	= NULL
RELEASE ox