thank you, it works i get all sheets at myfolder not inside book1 as book1.sheet1,sheet2.......sheet18

i need to insert the 18 sheets at book1(amman) as amman.sheet1 to ...amman.sheet18

=CombineExcelFiles(laXLSFiles, 'c:\dept\amman.xls')&& not work

at the end of operation i see message ..do you want to save the change you made to 'book1'?>

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#define CRLF chr(13) + chr(10)
USE koko
local lnMax
lnMax = 18
local array laXLSFiles[lnMax]

FOR i=1 TO lnMax
   COPY FOR numbers=i TO ("sheet" + TRANSFORM(i)) TYPE XL5 
   laXLSFiles[m.i] = sys(5) + curdir() + 'sheet' + transform(m.i) + 'xls' 
ENDFOR

=CombineExcelFiles(laXLSFiles, 'c:\dept\amman.xls')&& not work 

function CombineExcelFiles (taXLSFiles, tcDestination, tlDeleteOriginal)
external array taXLSFiles
local loExcel as Excel.application, ;
	loWorkBook as Excel.Worksbook, ;
	loWorkSheet , ;
	lnCounter, lcWorkSheetCaption, lcError, ;
	lcValidChars

lcError = ""

try
	lcValidChars = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789 "
	loExcel = newobject("Excel.Application")
	with loExcel
		.ScreenUpdating = .f.
		.DisplayAlerts = .f.
		.WorkBooks.add()
		lnCounter = 0

** Delete all existing worksheets except 1
		for each loWorkSheet in .WorkBooks(1).WorkSheets
			lnCounter = m.lnCounter + 1
			if m.lnCounter > 1
				loWorkSheet.delete
			endif
		endfor

		for lnCounter = 1 to alen(taXLSFiles,1)
			if file(taXLSFiles[m.lnCounter])
				lcWorkSheetCaption = juststem(taXLSFiles[m.lnCounter])
				loWorkBook = .WorkBooks.open(taXLSFiles[m.lnCounter])
				loWorkBook.WorkSheets(1).copy(null, ;
					.WorkBooks(1).WorkSheets(.WorkBooks(1).WorkSheets.count))
				.WorkBooks(1).ActiveSheet.name = ;
					right(alltrim(chrtran(m.lcWorkSheetCaption, ;
					chrtran(m.lcWorkSheetCaption,m.lcValidChars,"")," ")), 31) &&loWorkBook.Name
				loWorkBook.close(.f.) && Don't save changes
				if m.tlDeleteOriginal
					erase (taXLSFiles[m.lnCounter])
				endif
			endif
		endfor
** Remove the first original sheet from (Sheet1)
		.WorkBooks(1).WorkSheets(1).delete

		.WorkBooks(1).saveas(m.tcDestination)
		.ScreenUpdating = .t.
		.DisplayAlerts = .t.
	endwith

catch to loError
	lcError = Log_Error(m.loError)
finally
	if vartype(m.loExcel) = 'O'
		with loExcel
			.ScreenUpdating = .t.
			.DisplayAlerts = .t.
			.quit()
		endwith
	endif
endtry

return m.lcError
endfunc


*********************
function Log_Error
lparameters toError
local lcError, lcVars

lcError = [Error: ] + transform(m.toError.errorno) + CRLF + ;
	[LineNo: ] + transform(m.toError.lineno) + CRLF +  ;
	[Message: ] + m.toError.message  + CRLF +  ;
	[Procedure: ] + m.toError.procedure + CRLF +  ;
	[Details: ] + m.toError.details  + CRLF + ;
	[StackLevel: ] + transform(m.toError.stacklevel) + ;
	iif(_vfp.startmode = 0, CRLF + [LineContents: ] + m.toError.linecontents, '')


return m.lcError
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>Add at the very top of your program
>

>#define CRLF chr(13) + chr(10)
>

>
>>thank you ,
>>i try it ,
>>i get another error message at line endtry
>>Unhandled Structured Exception
>>errorNo:12
>>Message:variable'CRLF' is not found
>>user value:
>>
>>can i sent the table, it is small table just 38 records with 6 fields at your Ps.email, if you don't mind to sent your ps email as
>>private message.
>>
>>thanks