Thanks Hilmar. I've tried these things and they work just great.

>Some optinos for fast access are:
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Copy & Paste.
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COPY TO ... TYPE XLS; then use Automation for some finer control.
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Omit zero or blank values if it makes sense to do so. A conditional in VFP is much faster than a useless communication between VFP and Excel.
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Process multiple cells at once, like this:
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>.Range(.Cell(1,1), .Cell(5,5)).Font.Bold = -1
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>>Does anyone have any tips for speeding up the creation of excel files using
>>createobj('excel.application')
>>and then populating cells with
>>oApp.workbooks(1).sheets(1).cell(x, y) = {somevalue}
>>Doing it this way gives me the control I need over multiple sheets but is MUCH slower than COPY TO {ddd} TYPE XLS.
>>For example, are their some properties of the excel object I can set to speed things up?