>In the past, when I opened Excel through Automation (from Visual FoxPro), it came to the front automatically.
>I believe that was with an older version of the operating system. Now it doesn't. I suspect this has to do with
>some security system implemented by newer versions of the operating system itself, in which case not
>much can be done... but I wanted to check whether this is really the case.
>TIA,
>Hilmar.


In order to bring some windows to the front, the process must temporarily attach itself to that process, perform the "bring to front" operation, and then detach. I have some code if you need it. I'll have to dig it up. Here's a Stack Overflow article outlining the procedure: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3772233/win32-setforegroundwindow-unreliable