Ya realised it the moment i had posted my question. Anyways i'll post my
issue in C/C++ section.

as for the path, that's the way we pass the path of a file in c++, as the
first slash is treated as the escape sequence.

Thanks

viv

"merjet" wrote:

You should post your question to a C (?) newsgroup. VBA is the usual
language here. Book1.xls is the default workbook name when Excel
opens. Maybe you aren't writing to the correct file because "C:\
\vivek.xls" has 2 slashes.

Merjet