>Hi All,
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>I'm automating Excel with Foxpro to open a excel 97 workbook,when opening it prompts a message if I want to open it in "edit" mode or "read" mode. How to supress the prompt and choose always for edit. I have somewhat the following code:
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>oExcel = CreateObject("Excel.Application")
>oExcel.Workbooks.Open("f:\restposten.xls") && I get a prompt
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Try to change
oExcel.DisplayAlerts = .F.
oExcel.Application.Workbooks.Open("f:\restposten.xls")