>>dear timothy,
>>
>>you can do it this way for example
>>in the click event of the label
>>ox = Creataobject("outlook.application")
>>ox.visible = .t. or ox.show
>>
>david, I did try
>x = CREATEOBJECT('Excel.Sheet') as in the help example.
>
>it hesitated but excel never loaded? Is this a problem with my system perhaps?

Are you sure? By default, Excel loads, but is invisible.