Dear Yuri,

Coming back to my old problem, "Excel opening minimised through VFP", do you think these leads are useful ?:

1. Macros within Excel use the same open tables which are in use in VFP.These macros instantiate when the Excel file is opened. The macro uses a CreateObject everytime VFP is initiated. So do you think this is generating an error, causing a read-only status, due to multiple instantiation of a table ?
2.Everytime the vfp prog runs (to create or open an Excel file), after the program is over, the programme does not respond correctly to commands. For example, if 'use xyz'( a non-existent file) is typed in the command window it returns a messagebox-"operator Operand type mismatch", and has a titlebar heading "Program Error", even though I am out of the program.

Would you be kind enough to share any code with me on this error, if possible ? Besides, would you be able to tell me why my actual errors, if any are not being displayed through the normal messagebox process, and how I can get either excel, or vfp to do so, so that I know where I stand, in the first place ?

Thanks Yuri,

With best regards,

Steve.