Marcia,

Thanks!

I guess I'll end up trying all of these methods at some point.

For starters though I've downloaded the west wind stuff and am testing it now. I've got my own sample data working. The class seems pretty straightforward to use.


>Since I know the VFP report writer reasonably well this method seems appealing. It seems like less of a learning curve than MSChart or MSGraph.
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>Piece of cake to use MsGraph or Excel Automation to print in a report. You just use an oleBound Control in the report, just like the code sample. I do not know if there are still issues with images refreshing in reports - I know there used to be.
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>One consideration, though, is that although they haven't asked for it yet, I'm anticipating that down the road the users might want 'their original spreadsheet back'. Meaning that they might want to play with the output on their own. If that's the case, then I'm thinking that in the long run I have to use OLE Automation anyway?
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>Seems sensible to me.
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>Your article was written in 2002. Are the options fundamentally the same now? Or are there other issues or new implementations to consider?
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>Not that I know of....