Using automation it is easy. They just need to name the range. Then use can use automation to move to the range and grab the cell values you need.

PF

>I have a set of users who fo very sophisticated excel spreadsheets related to bonuses, and then hand enter them into my VFP hr system. Is there some way VFP could read the data right from the sheet?
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>(It would have to be a very exact method because a mistake of a cell or 2 could be catastrophic.)
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>They are willing to format the sheets uniformly.
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>CG