Hi Bill,

I would hazard a guess that you have not closed Excel (closing the spreadsheet in the process), or not closed the spreadsheet. Excel is probably still active with your spreadsheet open, just not visible.

I ran into the same problem a while ago, try oExcel.Quit



>Whenever I save an Excel spreadsheet the I have opened and modified with VFP6, if I try to later delete or move, or in anyway access that spreadsheet (i.e. through Exlorer, etc.) I get error messages about a sharing violation. The spreadsheet does not appear to be read only, and the original sheet was not either. The command I am using to save the sheet is
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>oExcel.ActiveWorkbook.SaveAs("&cSaveToFile",xlWorkBookNormal)
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>(where I have earlier defined xlWorkBookNormal as -4143 and cSaveToFile is the name of the file I want to save to).
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>Any ideas, anybody ???
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>Thanks