The easiest way to do this, and other Excel operations, is to turn on the macro recorder in Excel and recod a macro to do what you want. Then look at the code generated. You'll have to do a little translation into VFP but it is not hard.

>Hi,
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>now i know how to modify a Excel file from VFP programming.
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>i want to know the command for protect a COLUMN in EXCEL.
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>for exp. the Column A is stored list of Item number,
>i don't want any user can modify it ( Column A only )