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David Neal Parsons wrote:
> 
> Ed Hancock wrote:
> >
> > Sorry to bring this up again but I am still unable to do what should be
> > a simple chore.
> > A want to maintain a portfoleo of shares in Excel with input from
> > Metastock.
> >  Other charting programs such as Indexia, Insight Trader and even Omni
> > Trader have the facility of maintaining one or more portfoleos, but not
> > good old Metastock. MAYBE the next version (sigh)
> > All I need from Metastock is the LastPrice that can be chosen on the
> > title bar (LastPrice, Symbol,etc.. According to Equis this cannot be
> > OLE'd over to Excel. Why not? I thought this should a simple job for a
> > programmer. I have tried pick and drop with the mouse but this gets the
> > whole of the data. I only need the close for the last day.
> > Any assistance greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Regards to All
> > Ed Hancock
> 
> If you open up the stock in Downloader, this gives you a spreadsheet
> view of all the data for
>   that stock.
> You can select a single cell or block a range of cells.
> Click Edit/Copy.
> Shift to your Excel spreadsheet and highlight the cell that is to
> receive the data.
> Click Edit/Paste.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> David.
Thanks for the suggestion David, but this will not help. I need to link
the data (closing price) so that it updates daily. What you suggest will
only paste over the price for the chosen day.

There MUST be a simple solution. Equis?

Regards,
Ed Hancock