>>>1. Can I create PDFs from report (and from Excel) without having anything extra installed?
>>> 2. How can I add a password to that PDF ?
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>1. For VFP Reports, you need additional software, I use XFRX which is excellent,there is also FRX2PDF and MindsEye.
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>2. Microsoft have a free download for MS Office to allow creation of PDF's, but from looking at it just now it does not support passwords. There is also an open source PDF writer call PDFCreator (http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/)
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>Gary.

Gary,

Thanks a lot for your reply. I planned to start with Lisa N article and download for this task, but for now we decided that we can get away with Excel password-protected file, so I didn't investigate this route yet.