Anyone have a good link or can describe the process of loading an array from an excel file? Do I need to use the Jet ODBC engine for this?

I'd rather not go through the cumbersome line-by-line, element-by-element process of using a .csv file to load the array... There must be some way of just grabbing the data straight from excel.

I'm going with

Dim intPick3(1 to 10376, 1 to 3) As Integer  '10,376 is # of draws in Pick3

for the array of PA evening pick3 data. If I recall correctly, this should give me 3 columns * 10,376 rows (31,128 elements). "10376" will likely be replaced by a variable so I can have it read the actual number of draws for re-runs and updates.

I did work with VB6 and Access, but I can't unearth any decent info on working with excel. All I want to do is use a loop to load the array from an excel file that has the 3 digits in the first 3 columns, not reading dates and the first subscript in the array will represent the draw number.

thanks in advance for any help :-)