>Is there a way to open an excel file, that happens to be linked to another file, without excel throwing the dialog "this workbook contains automatic links ... do you want to update" ? I tried .DisplayAlerts=.F., but still get the dialog.
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>Chet

Hi Chet,

The code sample below will open the Excel workbook by passing the Excel dialog:

oExcel = CREATEOBJECT('Excel.Application')
oWorkbook = oExcel.Workbooks.Open('MYWORKBOOK.XLS',0)
oExcel.VISIBLE = .T.


Hope this helps,