The article Naomi referred to is here:

http://forum.foxclub.ru/read.php?32,177182,258927#msg-258927

With Google Translate, I could understand it reasonably well. My own adaptation of the code is as follows:

* Bring Excel windows to foreground (doesn't work...)
LOCAL loShell
loShell = CreateObject ("WScript.Shell")
IF loShell.AppActivate (loExcel.Caption) = .T.
	* loShell.SendKeys ("% ~")
	* Shown instance of Excel to the fore
	# DEFINE xlMinimized -4140
	# DEFINE xlMaximized -4137

	loExcel.WindowState = xlMinimized && displace window
	loExcel.WindowState = xlMaximized && Expand the window, leading to its activation
ELSE
	MessageBox ("Application " + loExcel.Caption + " not found")
ENDIF

>Hilmar -
>
>Could you post the code you used to accomplish this? I, too, am interested in this.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Jim