>>Try "Save As"
>
>Easier: since I already have a list of date column names, I'm simply widening the column so the .text will be a digit now:
>
> PROCEDURE GetColumnNames(tn)
>*[2012/11/26 17:39:35] ndragan - just use the clipboard
> LOCAL aF[1], lnfields
> loXls=this.oexcel
> loxls.ActiveSheet.ROWS(tn).SELECT
> loxls.SELECTION.COPY()
> _CLIPTEXT=TRIM(_CLIPTEXT, 1, 0h0d)
> lnfields=ALINES(aF, _CLIPTEXT, hTab)
> DIMENSION THIS.aFld[lnFields]
> ACOPY(aF, THIS.aFld)
> *[2012/11/30 15:20:39] ndragan - widen the date fields so that Excel2010 doesn't see ######.
> FOR i=1 to lnFields
> IF lower(af[i])$this.cValueFieldsList
> loxls.columns(i).ColumnWidth = 15.57
> endif
> ENDFOR
>
>Which now works even without saving the file. I just wish I didn't have to waste so much time on this.
>
>
PMFJI. I am always looking at how people extract data from excel to VFP. And I am trying to understand your code but it goes over my head. Hopefully, if it is not too much trouble, I can ask you. How do you get the value of 'tn" that you pass to this function? And one more; what is the 'this.oexcel' you use in this function? TIA.
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