>Thanks to all contributors this great thread.
>
>This is of general interest and useful to a lot of people IMHO:)
>
>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).
>
>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. && look in the debugger