How do I transfer data from Oracle Forms into MS Excel?

[gjones]

I have an Oracle Forms application and I want to populate an Excel spreadsheet with some data from the application.

I am using the DDE.Poke command to transfer data into the spredsheet and that is fine, but there are some merged cells on the spreadsheet that will not allow data to be transferred to using the DDE.Poke command, DDE.POKE(docid, 'R9C8',tmpdatep eriod, DDE.CF_TEXT, 1000);

Is there a way that I can populate merged cells in Excel from Oracle Forms?

Thanks in adavnce