>Greetings!
>
>When running an .APP, I can successfully launch Excel under program control by issuing "RUN /N excel c:\temp". This loads an .XLS file called TEMP into Excel. (The temp file is created by FoxPro based on preferences in a grid.) Apparently,
>I will appreciate any help. Thank you!
>
>Michael Reynolds


If you are using VFP you can subclass Excel and control it totally from within VFP. There are some samples on my web page you can download, but to start excel you might try:
oxcel=createobject('excel.application')
then test with
? type('oxcel.application')='O'