>I've got the code below, which builds an XLS file (VFP6, Excel 2000, NT4). If I go to Windows Explorer and double click the filename Excel launches but the cells portion of the window never ever paints. If I tab I see the cell values in the formula bar. If I start Excel and use the File/Open dialog and pick the file the cells paint correctly. This code does work fine in VFP7, ExcelXP, XPPro but that doesn't help the production environment where this code really has to run,

I wonder if there's an issue with Excel still holding a lock on the file in some way. I haven't run into this so much with Excel, but I've had a number of cases with Word where I can't do what I want with a file because Word's still holding onto it.

Tamar