Couple of things:
- When you create an Excel workbook using automation, 3 sheets are available by default, so you do not actually need to add sheets to the new workbook unless necessary.
- Similarly, the worksheet(s) have the rows already defined (64k in case of version 2003 and ~1 million in versions 2007 and above), so there is no need to add rows or cells
You can reference the whole worksheet as a 2 dimensional array (Row,Column) and write/read direct to the cells as:
[Workbook object].Sheets(1).Cells(R,C) = Value
HTH