Mike,
Strange. I thought that if you set visible to .t., Excel receives focus. Anyway, you could use some API functions to switch between the instances. Try something like this:

DECLARE INTEGER FindWindow IN Win32api STRING, STRING
DECLARE SetForegroundWindow IN Win32api INTEGER 

*-- get VFP handle
lnVfpHandle = FindWindow(.NULL., _screen.caption)

oXls=CREATEOBJECT("excel.application")
oXls.Visible=.t.

*-- get XLS handle
lnXlsHandle = FindWindow(.NULL., oXls.caption)

*-- set focus the Excel instance
SetForegroundWindow(lnXlsHandle)

*-- set focus to VFP instance
SetForegroundWindow(lnVfpHandle)

>Hi All
>
>I've started up Excel from VFP, filled in a few cells, made Excel visible, but I can't seem to find a way to set the focus on the Excel instance.
>
>How is that done programmatically?
>
>Thanks!