>What is the best way to view a spreadsheet? I'm currently using a "RUN" command followed by the file name but this displays the "Foxrun" command window (big black box).
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>Is there another, more elegant way to do this?
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>Thanks in advance

Hello,

Excel is an EXCELLENT OLE server (i have used it extensively).
Anything you do think of with Excel can be nicely requested from fox.

Try this (should work with recent versions of Excel) :

oExcel=getobject(getfile("xls"))
oExcel.windows(1).visible=.t.
oExcel.application.visible=.t.

you can, of course do much more,

François