Hello Oleg and Vince, as I wrote before, at a first glance, Oleg's suggest did work because there was no error message no more. However, there was also no really selection of cells. Vince's suggest also didn't solve this. Now I found a way by using key strokes, for instance: data _null_; file DDEcmds; put '[workbook.activate("EXAMPLE")]'; put '[app.activate("example - Excel")]'; put '[send.keys("^{home}")]'; put '[send.keys("{right}")]'; put '[send.keys("+{right}")]'; put '[send.keys("+{right}")]'; put '[send.keys("+{down}")]'; put '[font.properties(,"Bold",,,,,,,,3)]'; run; This worked under most circumstances. It could certainly be developped as a select cell macro. Thanks again for your suggestions, they helped on this topic anyway, Ulrich
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