>>>>>>The cursor must be created in advance, I believe. I don't remember where he lists column1, etc. Can you show the relevant piece of code?
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>>>>>When I execute the program again a test (small) excel file, after a few seconds, I get the Select Data Source window. Is this how this program is suppose to work?
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>>>>No. My colleague was having the same problem and this is what fixed it for him (and for me, although I had a different kind of problem):
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>>>>I’ve been able to solve this problem. See Paul Clemens reply in this thread http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/adodotnetdataproviders/thread/d5b29496-d6a1-4ecf-b1a4-5550d80b84b6
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>>>>Go to http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=13255 If you have Office 2010 64 bit you can download both links. First installs OleDB 64 bit. The second needs to be run with the /passive mode using command line and it installs OleDB 32 bit for office 2010.
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>>>Do you know how to figure out if my copy of Office 2010 is 32-bit or 64-bit?
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>>Go to Help Menu (from the File button). Mine says Office 64 bit.
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>>See attached picture.
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>You are the best. Thank you. I see that I have 32-bit Office 2010.

In this case try the 32 bit download and hopefully it will resolve your problem.