>>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
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>Hi Chet,
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>The code sample below will open the Excel workbook by passing the Excel dialog:
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>oExcel = CREATEOBJECT('Excel.Application')
>oWorkbook = oExcel.Workbooks.Open('MYWORKBOOK.XLS',0)
>oExcel.VISIBLE = .T.
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>Hope this helps,

In the paragraph above, "by passing" should have been "bypassing"