>actually terry i didn't explain what i am trying to do properly. i need to left align a few cells and i thought that it could be done through the autoformat function

Example:

#define xlCenter	-4108

With .Selection
  .WrapText            = .T.
  .Orientation         =  0
  .HorizontalAlignment = xlCenter
EndWith

>on another note they were some awful results against the gunners, shocking

Shocking! Bloody well shell-shocking! Hang my head in shame. Liverpool are notorious for letting themselves down in a clintch - but they don't get trounced!

>~M
>
>>>hi all,
>>>I am trying to tidy up an excel export program that i have. it all works ok but they layout needs a couple of tweeks. i am tryng to autoformat a cell but using the code below i get the error "... because you selected only one cell and the surrounding cells are blank, MS excel cannot determine which cells to apply the autoformat to"
>>>

>>>OleApp.Cells(lnCounter,1).AutoFormat()
>>>

>>>~M
>>
>>Mark
>>
>>I'm no expert at this but I recently did some formatting, with Boris's help. Would something like:
>>
>>With OleApp
>> .Range("A2:A2").Select
>> .Selection.Autoformat
>>EndWith
>>
>>work?
>>
>>Terry