Tom,

I think you'll get the best speed by simply using a COPY TO TYPE XLS. Automating Excel and filling cells is horridly slow. Once the file is out there you can crank up Excel and have it open the file.

>In the past I have used VFP to control and populate
>cells in an Excel spreadsheet.
>
>Would it be faster to create a VFP table, invoke
>Excel and have the COM object load the data to the
>spreadsheet? I do not use Excel much, so I don't
>even know where to put the COM object and kick it off.
>Does anyone have an example of such an animal?