>>I think you can use SaveAs rather than Save, but it's been a while since I did Excel automation.
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>>>The client's program uses Office Automation to prepare Excel spreadsheets for email to customers.
>>>Some of the client's workstations have the latest Office version and create spreadsheets that cannot be read by earlier versions (I can't read them with Office 2003)
>>>Is there some way to control the version that is created ?
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>It looks as if SaveAs is the answer, but I can't get it to work.
>It should accept another parameter for file format.
>I found a list, but no matter how I try to pass it, I crash
>
>This is the latest try, and it crashed
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> ole_xls.ActiveWorkbook.SaveAs(lc_location + pc_detail + ".xls","xlExcel5" )

Try:

xlExcel5 = 39
ole_xls.ActiveWorkbook.SaveAs(lc_location + pc_detail + ".xls",xlExcel5 )