David,
I am using a copy to _cliptext in VFP and a .past in excel and that is a lot(!) faster.

Thanks
Peter

>Peter,
>
>Make sure Excel is not Visible it'll run quite a bit faster. And minimize the number of method calls you are making.
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>Can you do something like create the 10 sheets as DBF files and then just make a couple of Excel calls to let it open each file instead of populating each cell individually.
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>>I have program which exports a report to excel. I use office aoutomation to fill the rows/cells with data from queries.
>>The problem is it writes several thousand lines to 10 different worksheets in one .xls file.
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>>And it runs for hours! I means if I start in the aftrnoon it isn't done the next morning!
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>>I need to use a template sheet for the headers
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>>Is there a fast way to append a whole cursor/table to for example worksheet 3 starting at row 6?
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>>like :
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>>oExcel.Worksheet(3).InsertDBF(6,1)
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>>HELP!
>>
>>Peter