>I know Tamar Ganor has written a book on this and I will be ordering it when I get back to my office. Currently I am out of town and all I have is the VFP Help System.
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>I am developing an application that uses OLE to send out VFP data to a MS Excel Spreadsheet.
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>I have it working quite well and I am really heppy with it but I am having a problem with the file management.
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>i.e. To get a clean and proper copy of the spread sheet I start with the line of code below:
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>COPY FILE PM1.XLS TO POSTEDMARKS1.XLS && THIS CLEARS OUT THE OLD COPY
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>Then I start the transfer code:
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>OLEAPP = CREATEOBJECT("Excel.Application")
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>My problem is if the operator has the file POSTEDMARKS1.XLS open in MS Excel, then the COPY FILE code fails.
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>I am trying to find a way of determining if the POSTEDMARKS1.XLS is already open and if it is, I would bypass the COPY FILE code.
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>If someone can help me with this it would be great.
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>Mike Smith

handle = fopen('postedmarks1.xls',12)
if handle>0
 =fclose(handle)
 copy file ...
else
 *in use

Cetin