Option Strict ON !?!?

Need help understanding the error.

Dim xL as Excel.Application

xL.Sheets("General").activate() --> Error here telling "Option Strict disallows late binding"

what am i doing wrong ?

Thanks in advance
Sihi

try this

' this xlapp.workbooks(1).worksheets("General") returns a reference to an Object and not a reference to a worksheet.

Dim xlwork As Excel.Worksheet

' This line explicitly tells the compiler that you're going to cast xlapp.workbooks(1).worksheets as a excel.worksheet and as such
it should return a reference on a worksheet instead of an object

xlwork = ctype(xlapp.Workbooks(1).Worksheets("GENERAL"),excel.worksheet)
xlwork.activate()

Thanks guru, it works :)