How To Use OLE Automation to Add Data to Excel Sheet

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Step-by-Step Example

1. Open a new workbook in Microsoft Excel 5.0 or Microsoft Excel 7.0 (part of Office 95) or Microsoft Excel 97 (part of Office 97), so that the program example in this article will work.
2. Select sheet 3 by clicking the tab at the bottom of the worksheet, and enter the following data into the spreadsheet:

         Enter         In Cells
         ----------------------------
         Part #        A1
         Sales YTD     B1
         1             A2 through A4
         2             A5 through A7
         3             B2 through B7
   					

3. On the Microsoft Excel Data menu, click Subtotal. The resulting dialog box should show that at each change in Part #, the function 'SUM' adds the subtotal to 'Sales YTD' and display that summary below the data. If so, click OK.
4. Click the tab at the bottom of the worksheet for Sheet 1 to restore the workbook's default page to Sheet 1.
5. Save the workbook. Then close the workbook, and exit from Microsoft Excel. For the following example code, the workbook has been saved as

         C:\XLSheets\Testbook.xls.
   					

6. In Microsoft Visual FoxPro for Windows, create the following program named oleExcel.prg:

   *** Program oleExcel.prg *****
   #DEFINE xlLandscape 2
   #DEFINE xlDoNotSaveChanges 2
   
   DIMENSION laDemoData(4)      && For some Visual FoxPro users, data
   laDemoData(1)= 1024          && could come from table or view
   laDemoData(2)= 2048
   laDemoData(3)= 5120
   laDemoData(4)= "The Sample Message"
   
   loExcel = CREATEOBJECT("Excel.application") 
   
   WITH loExcel
      .Application.Workbooks.Open("C:\XLSheets\testbook.xls")
      .Application.Worksheets("Sheet3").Activate  && Select sheet
      
      .Range("b2").Value = 14444          && constants as data
      .Range("b3").Value = 25555
      .Range("b4").Value = 30001
   
      .Range("b6").Value = laDemoData(1)  && variables as data
      .Range("b7").Value = laDemoData(2)
      .Range("b8").Value = laDemoData(3)
      .Range("a12").Value = laDemoData(4)
   
      .Worksheets("Sheet3").PageSetup.Orientation = xlLandscape
      .ActiveSheet.PrintOut  && Example of printing the worksheet
   
      .Visible = .t. && See the results
      =MESSAGEBOX("Click OK to close Excel.") && Keep the program running, 
                                              && so Excel isn't stranded
   
      .ActiveWindow.Close(xlDoNotSaveChanges)
      .Quit()
   ENDwith