>Hi All. Apologies up-front if this post is to the wrong category.
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>Q) Is there a way in Excel to enter a formula which retrieves an item of data from a remote web-server? For instance, if I have a web-server which has a particular url that returns a data item, eg a number, how can I use that url from within Excel to get that data item into my spreadsheet cell?

Hi Jos,

I don't know much about Excel but can you write VFP COM object and call it from Excel?