>Hi all,
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>I have the pivottable activex control (part of office web components) on a form class. I have cases where VFP comes up with the locate file dialogue "Locate OWC10.DLL:" when I try to instantiate this form with CreateObject(). Navigating to the dll has no effect.
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>However I the code: loPivotControl = CreateObject("OWC10.PivotTable.10") runs fines without any problems.
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>1. What's going on here? What does creating the form hosting the control do differently from innstatiating the control directly
>2. Because it doesn't error, I am finding difficult to preEmpty the issue. Does anyone know how I can stop vfp trying to locate the file? I rather have an error instead.
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>Thank you

Just an idea to try - may not help. Try to save this ActiveX as a separate class (or add it to some container class) and then use this class instead of the ActiveX on the form.