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MSFlexGrid to Excel

I just made an application that calculate reports from a lot of data. In order to show the report in
columns and rows I used a FlexGrid. Now I want to export and save that data in an Excel Sheet
(myfile.xls). I decided that the simple way I could do it was to transfer all the flexgrid to an excel
sheet using this simple code ( below), but when I have a lot of rows in the flexgrid (more than 3000 for example)
it takes more than 10 minutes to transfer all the data (P200Mhz,32Mb RAM).Is there any other way I could transfer my data in the Flexgrid to an Excel sheet in a faster way?.

Set Hoja_Excel_diario = GetObject(, "Excel.Application")
Set Hoja_Excel_diario = GetObject("myfile.xls", "excel.sheet.8")
Hoja_Excel_diario.windows.Item(1).Visible = True

'Transfer data from FlexGrid1 (N Rows, 8 Col) to Excel Sheet

For i = 0 To FlexGrid1.Rows - 1
FlexGrid1.Row = i
For j = 0 To 7
FlexGrid1.Col = j
Hoja_Excel_diario.worksheets.Item(1).cells(i + 1, j +1).Value = Val(flexGrid1.Text)
Next
Next

Is there any way I can copy all the data in the FlexGrid ( in the clipboard,for example ) and then paste it into an Excel sheet with the same format ( N rows x 8 Col ) ?

razp

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SteveB032698

The flex grid contains the .clip property.
This property contains a string which contains the selected cells.

To copy to Excel do the following

Dim strTemp as string

MSFlexGrid1.Row=1
MSFlexGrid1.Col=1 '(or the starting row)
MSFLexgrid1.ColSel= 6 ' (or the number of columns)
MsFlexGrid1.RowSel=6 '(or the number of the last row)
strTemp=MSFlexGrid1.clip

clipboard.clear
clipboard.settext strTemp

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razp

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Your answer was very useful, but there is only one problem.

Since all the data in the FlexGrid is "Text", when I use the following command (after I copied the data to the clipboard ):

Hoja_Excel_exportar.worksheets.Item(1).cells(3, 1).Select
Hoja_Excel_exportar.worksheets.Item(1).Paste

All the data is transfered correctly, but is left justified and is transfered as Text, which is not useful to me.

But ( funny thing ) if I go directly to the excel sheet and execute the command Paste in the sheet, the data that I get is right justified and with a format as Number ( since I can SUM all the data in each column ).

I really need to get the data as Number and not Text.

Please help me with this last thing.(I'll give more points if you want )

Mirkwood

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Tim Turner

If you use this .clip method to copy the entire flexgrid including the "header row"... it does indeed paste into excel except that the header rows are not in their columns... it takes the new lines and uses them to create a new row....

Any ideas how to correct that??? Perhaps a routine that removes the newline characters?