>It never rains but it pours. As you may have noticed from recent post, I'm pretty new to this Excel automation lark. However, I do have some code that's been working fine for me. I've built my exe and it works fine as well as from VFP -on MY m/c
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>Now when my users invoke the exe and run this code:
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>EXPORT TO &lcFilePath TYPE XL5
>loExcel = CREATEOBJECT([Excel.Application])
>With loExcel
>  .Workbooks.Open( lcFilePath)
>  If not thisform.lCustom		&& If chose non-custom, formatted o/p (default)
>    With .ActiveWindow
>      .DisplayZeros	= .F.
>      .Width		= 1124       && <---------------- THIS THE OFFENDING LINE
>      .Height 	= 645
>   EndWith
>  With .ActiveSheet
>    ...
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>my error routine reports:
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>OLE dispatch error 1479 at line 30 of ...., line of code = .
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>The actual line is:
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> .Width = 1124
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>but the routine says "."
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>What gives here?????
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>Of course Help tells me zip.
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>I suspected that it might be because Excel was already open on their m/cs, so closed it, but no difference.
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>'ppreciate it.

Where did you set Excel visible? Try to add try/catch block to your code. Finally, don't use macro in the first line, but rather name expression.