>Thanks to all contributors this great thread.
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>This is of general interest and useful to a lot of people IMHO:)
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>By the way is there a trick to do just the opposite? i-e feed a table-like set of MS-Excel cells as a VFP array in order to avoid cell-per-cell parsing when downloading the content of a heavy sheets via com (I am not discussing ADO or ODBC here).
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>François
Sure - see message#
1519015 local obj, sheetObj
obj = createobject('Excel.Application')
=m.obj.workbooks.Open('D:\tmp\1.xlsx')
sheetObj= m.obj.WorkBooks(1).Sheets(1)
local aa[1]
aa = m.sheetObj.Range(m.sheetObj.Cells(1,1), m.sheetObj.Cells(2,5)).Value
sheetObj= null
=m.obj.Quit()
obj = null
assert .f.
Gregory