>>>>Boris, or anyone, can you tell me why I now get an OLE dispatch (un-detailed) error with the below .width and ,Height commands? .DisplayZeros = .F. - no problem, or the commands after that.
>>>>They were working fine before but now in a loop as I do this 2 times, once for each generated w/s which I later combine in one book, as per Naomi's supplied code.
>>>>

>>>>With loExcel
>>>>  .Workbooks.Open( lcTempXLS)
>>>>  With .ActiveWindow
>>>>    .DisplayZeros 	= .F.
>>>>    .Width	= 2000
>>>>    .Height 	=  645
>>>>  EndWith
>>>>  With .ActiveSheet
>>>>    .Columns( 2).ColumnWidth = 24
>>>>    .Columns( 3).ColumnWidth =  6
>>>>    ... etc
>>>>  EndWith
>>>>  ...
>>>>EndWith
>>>>

>>>>
>>>>Cheers
>>>>
>>>>Terry
>>>
>>>Width = 2000??? WOW what a monitor!
>>>Why you set Heigth and Width values of the window?
>>>If you want window to be maximised just use .WindowState = 2
>>
>>OOps! I don't understand - I wasn't looking at the values. Either they were commented out orig. or somehow the orig. values I used have been changed :-)
>>
>>Anyway, I changed width to 200 (don't know what units this is in!) but still get the error
>>
>>Thanks
>
>I think the property is called DisplayAlerts. Try to comment Width and Height completely for now.

Got it now, thanks