>>I've said before that the textbook "Microsoft Office Automation with Visual Foxpro" by our Tamar Granor and Della Martin is one of the most useful technical books I've bought.
>>I do a lot of Excel automation with .NET. Many customers want their invoices transmitted via email or FTP in Excel format. Usually they require a format dictated by the A/P system they're using and some of those systems can be pretty finicky.
>>Since my customer can't get paid till I get it right, I usually give these projects high priority.
>>Excel has an annoying way of displaying 25.20 as 25.2 as a default and some systems won't accept that.
>>I vaguely remembered a way to format cells to get that trailing zero, but I couldn't remember the exact syntax.
>>Googling was no help, so I looked at that 23 year old book and sure enough the exact case I wanted to handle was there.
>>Translating the VFP to C# was simple.
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>>                // Tax formatting
>>                Excel.Range taxrange = (Excel.Range)xlWorkSheet.get_Range("D2", "D" + reportsDs.view_guessbillingsummary.Rows.Count + 1.ToString().TrimEnd().TrimStart());
>>                taxrange.NumberFormat = "###,###,###.#0";
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>Thanks, Bill. Full disclosure: Della wrote the Excel chapters.
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>Tamar

I love Della.
You too Tamar.

Great book.

The first advisor Devcon where Brian Jones gave demos of JFAST was awesome. His demos got even more powerful when the output to the Chief's was included later on using automation. I believe Della worked with him on the project, is that correct ?

This is another case in point for Doug Hennig's Advanced Excel Reporting suggstions - no way that JFAST was going to hand the generals a boring list right ?

Very cool!