>Borislav--
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>>Use version:
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>>oExcel = CREATEOBJECT([Excel.Application.8]) && If I am not mistaking Excel 2000 has 8th version. but you should check.
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>Thanks.
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>Excel 2000 is 9. CreateObject accepts this syntax. GetObject appears not to. Any thoughts.
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>Tim

That's because GETOBJECT uses whatever is currently running. Version makes no difference. You could check the version via automation once you've gotten the object reference.

oX = GETOBJECT(,"Excel.Application")
?oX.Version   && Excel2003 is 11.0