Gregory
Good solution.
Suppose the worksheet had an indeterminate number of rows > 5K?
How would you establish the range?


>>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
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>Sure - see message#1519015
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>	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
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