You can use OLE automation with Excel and pretty much do whatever you want with the spreadsheet.

You can find numerous examples here of Automation.

PF

>I have a large, very wide spreadsheet in ecxel that has employee social security number in one column and one blank column for earnings figures. The spreadsheet cannot easily be exported to a table because of its complexity.
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>I have a VFP table with the ss# and the earnings figures. Is there some way to have vfp access the spreadsheet, locate the ss# and write the earnings in the adjacent column? I cant fathom having to do this by hand.
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>TIA
>Chris