There have been reports of this happening when the path you are trying to dump the excel spreadsheet to doesn't exist. Check the path you are using and make sure that all the directories in that path actually exist on the system.

>dear all,
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>i have an application in vfp6.0 which uses OLE to dump the data into a MS EXCEL 2000 spreadsheet.
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>The above process was working flawlessly all this while but suddenly now the following error surfaces -
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>"OLE error code 0x800a03ec : Unknown COM status Code"
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>please advise me what is the problem ?? and, how can i overcome it ?
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>with sincere thanks.