>>Try oxcel.visible=.t.
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>That WORKS! That would even take care of the need to check whether the application is already loaded before launching it. If someone clicks on the launcher button again, I just issue "oxcel.visible=.t." again.
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>Now, once Excel is activated as an object, do you know how to command it, as an object, to open a file? I've seen the DDE functions in a great routine in the Oct93 issue of FoxPro Advisor. But, it would be great if the Excel object could just go ahead and open a file.
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>Thanks a lot!
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>Michael Reynolds

Download the sample code on my webpage. One was written by the FoxTeam and it uses VFP to send data to Excel, create a graph, then send that to Powerpoint. There's also several other examples on controlling Word and Outlook.

John