Thierry

Thanks - that worked for the client's W7 machine ...... but not for the W8 ! - both running Excel 2010. I will investigate a bit more.... and might be back for more help in due course.

Thanks for assistance so far.

Barry

>what about
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>COPY TO C:\myfolder\mysheet.XLS TYPE XL5 && XL5 instead of XLS
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>>I have a small Excel automation program that generates a data set in VFP and then copies the data to an Excel spreadsheet. I than create a workbook object and add a chart to it.
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>>COPY TO C:\myfolder\mysheet.XLS TYPE XLS
>>oWorkBook = GETOBJECT("C:\myfolder\mysheet.xls")
>>oChart1=oWorkBook.Charts.Add()	
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>>This works fine in Excel 2003 (on XP) but crashes in Excel 2010 (on a W7 OS) on the 3rd line with Error message: Object OWORKBOOK is not found.
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>>Any help appreciated.
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>>Barry Sutton