Hi,
the short answer: No! There is not way to access Excel .xls files from Jabaco, unless you are a gifted Java developer.
the longer answer:
The way you're describing is called "ActiveX". The call to "CreateObject()" creates an ActiveX object. This can be accessed from VB6 programs. Currently, Jabaco does not include a direct way to deal with ActiveX. You'd have to use a "Java COM bridge" library to do that. Manuel is looking for volunteers to provide ActiveX support for Jabaco.
Another way would be to use a Java framework specialized on Excel. One example is
JExcel.
A third - perhaps a bit cumbersome - option could be to store your Excel data in a non-binary format (txt, csv, xml, ...) and access this with the more traditional file handling routines.
Happy experimenting!
A1880