Ok, so I have an excel file on my webserver and I want to write
certain data to it. I'm using ASP, VBScript and IIS on a W2k Server.

Here are my steps:
1) Copy file "A" from a directory to directory B as "A1".
2) Open file "A1" and write data to certain cells.
3) Close Excel file.

The main problem is, it copies the file, writes the data, BUT
it makes two files... file "A1" which is the one I want and
another file "8B18300" or any other random name. WHY does it
make this other file? Is it the way I'm using the excel.Application
object? Also, sometimes, the data doesn't get written to my file
"A1", but if I open the randomly named file, the data is there.

SO, 2 questions:
1) why does it create this random file?
2) why does the data always get written to the random file,
and not my written file?

Thanks for any help, my basic code is included below:




I used the following code:

----------- BEGIN CODE -----------

dim objFSO, objExcel, objWorkBook, src, dest

Set objFSO = Server.CreateObject("scripting.filesystemobject")
objFSO.copyfile src, dest

set objExcel = CreateObject("Excel.Application")

objExcel.Visible = false
objExcel.DisplayAlerts = false

objExcel.Workbooks.Open(dest)

objExcel.ActiveSheet.Range("C3").Value = "HI"

objExcel.ActiveSheet.Range("E1:E1").Value = "Name"
objExcel.ActiveSheet.Range("F1:F1").Value = "Desc"

objExcel.ActiveWorkbook.Save
objExcel.ActiveWorkbook.Close
objExcel.Workbooks.Close

objExcel.Quit
set objExcel = Nothing
Set objFSO = Nothing

----------- END CODE -----------