I have been handed my first project for using a spreadsheet as input to an accounting program. After some research, I noticed 2 methods for reading Excel from other programs.

1) I am not sure if VFP can support this one. But in a VB book on databases, there's a discussion of using VB's ISAM driver to access Excel.

2) Using Excel objects to gain access to the data.

My main question involves the relative speed of these 2 methods. The sample I was given contains 5500 rows and 6 columns. The data is to be sent to us weekly.

Any input would be appreciated.

Pf