Hi Hilmar,

Thanks for responding...I will keep your note handy for when I get into working with Excel.

Albert

>>Hi all,
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>>I could go looking around but just wondered if anyone has released classes to automate Word and Excel? I have the book "Microsoft Office Automation with Visual Foxpro" and its all good stuff - but I think I could sell a client on doing some automation stuff if I did not have to spend time first writing a generic Word and Excel class to do stuff like opening each of these, opening/closing documents and all that housekeeping kind of stuff.
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>>Anything out there either free or commercial?
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>>Albert
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>My download #9991 is a class that does both text reports and Excel reports. Sample included. It helps ease the pain by doing some of the repetitive stuff - for example, you can define a group expression, and automatically print certain stuff in .GroupHeader() and .GroupFooter() methods.
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>Take a look at it, and ask back for any questions.