Thank you Craig, Yuri and Tore.

I found the .h file values and it's working now.

Is there any way I can relate the excel # to a year?
Most people say Office 2003, etc. and I'd like to know which excel # relates to which version of Office.


>>>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
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>>This is the latest try, and it crashed
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>> ole_xls.ActiveWorkbook.SaveAs(lc_location + pc_detail + ".xls","xlExcel5" )
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ole_xls.ActiveWorkbook.SaveAs(lc_location + pc_detail + ".xls",xlExcel5 )

>Or, if you have forgotten to include the .h file:
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ole_xls.ActiveWorkbook.SaveAs(lc_location + pc_detail + ".xls",39 )