>If I have a VFP application, and I know that the user is supposed to have Excel installed on the mahine, but I want to be a good little programmer and not use hard-coded paths, how can I find the path to Excel? Do I look for the application registered to handle XLS files? Just forming an idea here ...
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>&& Art

Hi Arthur,

You can use FindExecutable() API function
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/shellcc/platform/shell/reference/functions/findexecutable.asp

HTH