Hi Dragan,

As you said, "Automation had its charm in the day, but as years go by, it's exactly what you say - Office detests being a computing tool, it wants to be a clicking user's toy.".

I find it quite difficult to distribute a tool that has this kind third-party dependency. Embedding a single-purpose dll that provides excel import/export without this risk may be worth the money if you can afford the cost of an independent library.

Most excel libraries to-day are DotNet, java or even python-based. Not a lot left for VFP die-hard devs. That is why I was quite happy to stumble on this tool while googling on Excel via COM:) This one ain't cheap alas.

Have a nice day

Daniel