>hi everyone !!!
>
>i want to open an excel sheet from my vfp program. but without using the OLE container.
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>how can it be done???
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>also, when someone is working on that excel sheet, is there any way whereby someone else can also work on that sheet just as we use vfp tables in the shared mode.
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>i may sound dumb, but pl. help me.
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>thanx,
>ram.

oExcel = createobject('Excel.application')
with oExcel
 .Workbooks.Open(lcFullpathnameOfXLS)
 .visible = .t.
endwith

Another one cannot open and work on it at the same time (no RW access is allowed).
Cetin