That was a good idea that Borislav had. I wonder if _screen.Activate() would of worked....

>Tried _screen.show(), but it did not work. However, the code Borislav suggested did work. Thanks for you input though... much appreciated!
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>>did you try on your code put _screen.show() after you set excel.visible?
>>if ur using a toplevel form the do topleverform.show()
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>>>I have a program that opens an Excel spreadsheet and reads some data from it. I know I can keep the instance of Excel invisible, but I would actually like to keep it visible. However, once I set Excel as visible, it gets focus. I can't figure out how to get back to VFP (apart from manually clicking on VFP on the task bar). Is there a way to programmatically force focus back to my VFP application?
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>>>Joel