>Naomi,
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>Sorry but I still did not get my coffee so I can barely understand anything yet.
>
>>Here is the idea of my code:
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>>If I found, that the file I want to create is currently opened by Excel, I want to bring Excel to front, let the users close it, and then proceed with creating Excel and opening it again.
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>Do you really need user intervention? I do not see the point unless they know they will need to "Save AS", otherwise any changes they will do will be overwrited, wouldn't it?
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>Maybe something like this works for you?
>
>

>lcFileName		= 'SomeDrive:\SomePath\SomeFile.XLS'
>loBook			= Getobject(lcFileName) && If it is already open you'll get a reference to it
>loExcel			= loBook.Application
>loBook.Close(.f.)
>loExcel.Quit()
>

>

Ha :) Both you and on Russian web-site where I discuss the same problem suggest various workarounds. But I want to make my code/idea work! Stubborn, perhaps. I'm thinking, what if they changed something and want to save?

Anyway, my current code (with the slight modification of Excel.hwnd) works, so I may leave it like that, since I have to solve different more important and urgent problems and this was something I artificially created for myself.

But your future ideas are more than welcomed, as well as somebody's else.