>I don't like to make an Automation object visible. It seems that 90% of the errors that happen that will cause you to shutdown everything happens when the user closes the app while VFP still has an object reference to it.
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>I would think that with the time you are saving these folks by creating the spreadsheet, it won't hurt them too much to run your operation to create it, then start Excel and open the sheet.

Well, about now, I wish I had told the users that was how it would be done. But, they've been getting live Excel sheets for a long time now (since I had no problems using GETOBJECT() in vfp5), so I'm really pretty much stuck with continuing it...or else my reputation will be severely tarnished if I yank the visible sheets out now, and I'll certainly grow tired of the whining about it :)