How To Determine FileFormat Values for Excel SaveAs Method (157721)


The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Visual FoxPro for Windows 3.0
  • Microsoft Visual FoxPro for Windows 3.0b
  • Microsoft Visual FoxPro for Windows 5.0
  • Microsoft Visual FoxPro for Windows 6.0
This article was previously published under Q157721

SUMMARY

Visual Basic for Excel Help often specifies constant names rather than values to be used in calling object methods. When performing OLE Automation from Visual FoxPro, FoxPro does not understand these constants and, therefore, requires their initial values.

Below are the steps used to determine what the constant value is for a specific file format to be used for the FileFormat portion of the SaveAs method.

MORE INFORMATION

  1. Create a worksheet in Excel and save it in the format that you want. Make sure that you close the file before continuing.
  2. Issue the following commands in Visual FoxPro: 
          * First get an object reference to the Excel application
      oXL = CREATEOBJECT("Excel.Application")  && starts excel

      * Open the worksheet created in step 1 (be sure to include
      * the full path and file name
      oXL.WorkBooks.Add("myfile.xls")

      * Retrieve the FileFormat
      nFileFormat = oXL.WorkBooks(1).FileFormat

      * Save the file under a new name with the same format
      oXL.WorkBooks(1).SaveAs("new.xls",nFileFormat)

      * Quit Excel
      oXL.Quit

      * Release the object reference
      RELEASE oXL
Modification Type:MinorLast Reviewed:7/1/2004
Keywords:kbhowto kbinterop KB157721
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