>>>>What's a good way to determine if Excel is installed?
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>>>Could you put error trap on createobject line?
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>>Or on GETOBJECT(, "Excel.Application")...
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>Yes, that's the one I have to use...I'm kind of expecting there might be other errors, so I was trying to rule the installation problem out first -- but if there's no easy way to find if EXE exists, then I'll have to do that...

Your error trap may employ AERROR() to check what is the error message, number, etc.