Al --
Thanks for your response as well.
I am don't have access to any of the affected machines unfortunately.
And my work is now what I would all heavy duty.
So I think I will try pursuing a different avenue.
>Was anything recorded to the Application or System Event Logs on the affected machines?
>
>A lot of orphan files in the Temp files folder? Interference from antivirus software?
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>Are the users using Excel at the same time?
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>FWIW my understanding is Office applications are not suitable for heavy duty as COM servers, intermittent errors are to be expected and need to be coded around.
>
>>Any guesses on this from anybody?
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>>>My users export a lot of their data to Excel, both for manipulation and printing.
>>>
>>>Every once it a blue moon, somebody will get an error like this
>>>
>>>OLE IDISPATCH EXCEPTION CODE 0 FROM MICROSOFT EXCEL: UNABLE TO GET THE PRINTOUT PROPERTY OF THE SHEETS CLASS.
>>>
>>>Another error I see refers to the PASTE property.
>>>
>>>Why might these errors be occurring? What, if anything, can I do about them?
Jim Nelson
Newbury Park, CA