>I am using VFP8 to output a cursor into Excel.
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>How can I format a column in Excel to force all data to be left justified or as character type data?
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>The problem I am having is that field2 of my cursor is a character field but it can contain either characters(abc), numbers(123) or both(abc123). When I output the data to Excel, the second column will left justify the character data and right justify the number data.
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>I am doing the following to output the data.
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>oSheet = CreateObject("Excel.Sheet.8")
>lnRow = 1
>SCAN
>oSheet.ActiveSheet.Cells(lnRow, 1).Value = mycursor.field1
>oSheet.ActiveSheet.Cells(lnRow, 2).Value = mycursor.field2
>lnRow = lnRow + 1
>ENDSCAN
>

With Automation, you can format the cell as text before inserting a value.

>I'm not using the COPY TO file TYPE XL5 because the cursor's field names are outputted on the first row of the spreadsheet and we don't want to see the field names.

That's no excuse, IMHO. It would be much faster to COPY TO ..., and then to erase the first row through Automation.