Chapter 7 - Excel Basics
Excel has some capabilities that aren t found in FoxPro. Want a tabular report that the average end user can manipulate? Try Excel. Need some mathematical calculations that FoxPro doesn t provide? Excel can do it. Want some graphs? Excel has an excellent graphing engine.
Working with Excel through Automation has a lot in common with automating Word chalk one up for polymorphism. Unfortunately, there are more differences than similarities, since the two servers have different abilities and purposes.
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