>I see the light at the end of the tunnel - getting there.
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>The Excel Charts are accurate and complete, now I need to 'publish' (whatever that means) the workbooks to my specific directory.
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>The question is How can I code VFP to complete the steps that are apparent from EXCEL Save As HML or MHT extension (either seems to work).
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>The spreadsheets are automatically updated from SAP dumps nightly via VFP - how can automate this last need?

Did you try SaveAs with format xlHtml?

oWorkbook.SaveAs(lcFileName, xlHtml)