From: Bev Jennings Date: 2010-11-05T23:12:27+09:00 Subject: Re: Excel and Ruby Hi, Sorry about the delay in replying but I have been wandering around the mountains in our area for a couple of days. I have not yet a chance to try your suggested format for the worksheet.Range method. I hope it works. With regard to your question about what I am trying to do... The first objective of my program is to bring me up to speed using Ruby program to automate the extraction of data from Excel spreadsheets. Once I have got that working then I will extract data from a large spreadsheet covering levy payments by occupants in a retirement village and then use Ruby to print out letters to individual occupants who are wanting to reconcile their payments. This will then require using Ruby to print reports. Examples of doing this seems pretty scarce. Regards, BevJ -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.