writing to a merged cell in Excel

[MacschedStudent]

Hey guys I'm writing from a text file to a spreadsheet using DDEPoke. Everything works great until I attempt to write to a merged cell here is the line of code:


Let>CurrentLine=Lines_1
DDEPoke>Excel,e:\test.xls:Sheet1,R2C1,CurrentLine

and I get the following error msg



"Cannot change part of a Merged Cell"




any way to get around that? Also if there is data there already how would you make sure the new data is in front of the existing data?