Try checking out the EM_SETLIMITTEXT[^] message. Steve

I'm no expert in the Excel object model, but it looks like you'll have to iterate over the cell values in your range, one by one, and write them out to a text file yourself. There's nothing that's going to do it for you. But, I could be wrong. I don't do any Office coding but maybe once every couple of years... Dave Kreskowiak Microsoft MVP - Visual Basic

damn, don't you understand ??????? well, i sum up, but it's my last explanation ! 1. you choose your file with the CFileDialog 2. you then get the file path into a CString object 3. you pass this CString object directly to fopen() ! there's no need to change a backslash into double backslashes, because you need this only when you hardcode strings in your source code (because the \ is the character escapment, and '\\' is the ascii code for the \ character) !!! Don't know where to start ? Refer the Forums Guidelines and ask a friend [VisualCalc 3.0][Flags Beginner's Guide]

Hi, RGBQUAD *pColors = pbmi->bmiColors; for(int i = 0; i < 256; i++) { pColors->rgbBlue = i; pColors->rgbGreen = i; pColors->rgbRed = i; pColors->rgbReserved = 0; pColors++; } The code snippet above is setting the color table. In your previous question, you wanted it grayscale so the color table so I set it up as such. If you want it to be color you need to setup the appropriate color table that your 8-bit data maps to. Regards, Justin Tay