>>Thanks for the suggestions. I knew about the OLE Automation route, but I wanted to know if I was missing anything concerning the EXPORT TO command, or if there was another VFP method used for pushing data into Excel.
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>>Ben Holton
>
>Unless you are only pushing a small amount of data into Excel, using pure OLE automation is painfully slow.
>
>Instead, I have found it more efficient to:
>1) make a CSV file using COPY TO output.csv DELIMITED
>2) Start Excel using OLE automation
>3) Make Excel open the output.csv file via OLE
>4) Insert a row at the top and populate the cells with column titles via OLE
> (note this allows you to make better column titles then field names anyway)
>5) Perform other formatting such as fonts, alignments, borders, shading,
> sheet names, etc. via OLE
>6) Save the data as a Excel Workbook via OLE
>
>If you want some examples, please let me know,
>
>David

Check out _VFP.DataToClip() and Paste in Excel and tell me if you still think it's slow.