>i dont find the owc11 component (dll),then i dont tried it.i found a donwload for office 2007 ( 8 Moctets !)
>
>there is an old method to embed any application on a vfp form using APIs ( it embed here excel, but can be also word,notepad or something else).
>of course excel must be installed .
>
>

>*Use APIs to embed excel on a top level form
>*Excel becomes a child of the form window by SetParent API.
>*this works but causes many new problems.........
>
>Publi yfrm
>yfrm=Newobject("oexcel")
>yfrm.Show
>Read Events
>Retu
>*
>Define Class oexcel As Form
>	Height = 439
>	Width = 707
>	AutoCenter = .T.
>	ShowWindow=2
>	Caption = "Embed excel on a form"
>	Name = "Form1"
>
>	Add Object command2 As CommandButton With ;
>		Top = 405, ;
>		Left = 228, ;
>		Height = 27, ;
>		Width = 156, ;
>		Caption = "Excel file....", ;
>		Name = "Command2"
>
>	Procedure Load
>	Declare SetParent In user32 Integer hWndChild, Integer hWndParent
>	Declare Integer SetWindowPos In User32 ;
>		integer Wnd_handler, Integer Window_Order, ;
>		integer X1, Integer Y1, Integer X2, Integer Y2, Integer wFlags
>	Declare Long FindWindow In Win32API ;
>		STRING lpClassName;
>		,String lpWindowName
>	Endproc
>
>	Procedure Destroy
>	loExcel=Null
>	Release loExcel
>	Clea Events
>	Endproc
>
>	Procedure command2.Click
>	Local loExcel,loWorkBook
>	loExcel = Createobject('excel.application')
>	lcFile = Getfile('xls|xslx')
>	If Empty(m.lcFile) Or ! Inlist(Lower(Justext(m.lcFile)),"xls","xlsx")
>		Return .F.
>	Endi
>	loWorkBook = loExcel.Workbooks.Add(m.lcFile)
>	oCaption=loExcel.Caption
>	Excel_hwnd=FindWindow(Null,oCaption)
>* messagebox(trans(oCaption +"    "+trans(Excel_hwnd)),0+32+4096,'',1200)
>	If !Excel_hwnd=0
>		SetParent(Excel_hwnd, Thisform.HWnd)
>		SetWindowPos( Excel_hwnd,0,0,0,Thisform.Width-1,Thisform.Height-1,64)
>	Else
>		Messagebox("fails",16+4096)
>	Endi
>
>	loExcel.Visible = .T.
>	Endproc
>
>Enddefine
>*
>*-- EndDefine: oexcel
>

Dear Yousfi Benameur,
Your code works very good. However, the excel file is opened with read only. I cannot edit excel file.
Please help me to edit excel file.
Thank very much