>It's one thing to be able to get, say, an Excel w/s up, it's another to be know what the commands are. for example, I can get Excel to start from VFP but how do I know what the commands are to, say, open a particular w/s, move to cell(A,13).
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>Essentially I need to open up certain Excel w/s or CSV files (in either Excel or a text editor). How do I get a list of valid commands, etc., within those app's, so as to make them do my bidding?
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>TIA
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>Terry

When I had to do some Word automation, there were two things that helped me:

1. The OLE Automation book from www.hentzenwerke.com
2. Intellisense

For #2, if you create an instance of Excel by using ox = createobject("Excel.Application"), then you can use ox. to pop up Intellisense.