>In my application I use the following code to create an Excel spreadsheet and populate it with the contents of an array that was created with a SQL Select into statement. Sometimes the array is large, over a 1000 records, and this process can be lengthy (5-10 minutes). Any advice on how to speed this up?
>
>Wait Window "Creating Excel Spreadsheet..." nowait
>tmpSheet = GetObject('','excel.sheet')
>XLApp = tmpsheet.application
>XLApp.WorkBooks.Add()
>XLSheet = XLApp.ActiveSheet
>XLSheet.Cells(1,1).Value = "Soc_Sec_Num"
>XLSheet.Cells(1,2).Value = "Employee_Name"
>XLSheet.Cells(1,3).Value = "Ded_Code"
>XLSheet.Cells(1,4).Value = "ER"
>XLSheet.Cells(1,5).Value = "UDDS"
>XLSheet.Cells(1,6).Value = "Fund"
>XLSheet.Cells(1,7).Value = "Act"
>XLSheet.Cells(1,8).Value = "Acct"
>FOR i = 1 to _tally
> j = i + 1
> XLSheet.Cells(j,1).Value = customized(i,1)
> XLSheet.Cells(j,2).Value = customized(i,2)
> XLSheet.Cells(j,3).Value = customized(i,3)
> XLSheet.Cells(j,4).Value = customized(i,4)
> XLSheet.Cells(j,5).Value = customized(i,5)
> XLSheet.Cells(j,6).Value = customized(i,6)
> XLSheet.Cells(j,7).Value = customized(i,7)
> XLSheet.Cells(j,8).Value = customized(i,8)
>ENDFOR
>XLApp.ActiveWindow.WindowState = 2
>XLSheet.Cells.Select
>XLSheet.Cells.EntireColumn.AutoFit
>XLSheet.Range("A1").Select
>Wait Window "Excel Spreadsheet Complete!" nowait
>RELEASE tmpSheet
>XLApp.Visible = .t.

Maybe you should try to put the results into a cursor and then COPY the cursor TO .......TYPE XL. I have done this with cursors of over 20,000 and it is very fast. HTH.