I am using Office 2000, the error occurs on the "run" line.

I forgot one other line of code that I am running just after the "run" line:

oEXCEL.APPLICATION.VISIBLE = .T.

I don't know if that will make a difference or not.

>I am using VS 6 SP 3 and Office 2000. I created a macros.xls and added a macro called master. Your code ran fine...
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>What version of Office are you using? And, does the error occur on a specific line?
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>>John,
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>>I keep getting an OLE error when trying to run an Excel macro using OLE Automation. I have searched everywhere for a solution and can't find anything. I was wondering if you've ever tried to run an Excel macro using VFP or VB.
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>>I first tried an Auto_Activate macro. It worked fine if I opened the workbook using Excel, but when I used VFP 5.0 and OLE Automation to open the workbook it would not run the macro. So I renamed the macro to "Master" and tried to run it after the workbook was already open.
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>>The macro actually runs but I get the following message afterward:
>> OLE error code Ox800a9c68: Unknown OLE status code
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>>I tried it in VFP 6.0 and got this:
>> OLE error code Ox800a9c68: Unknown COM status code
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>>Here is the code I'm using.
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>>oEXCEL = CREATEOBJECT("Excel.Application")
>>oEXCEL.Workbooks.Open("MACROS.XLS")
>>oEXCEL.Application.Run("'MACROS.XLS'!Master")
>>oEXCEL.QUIT()
>>RELEASE oEXCEL
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>>I did find a similar confirmed bug ("Unknown COM status code" With ActiveX Conferencing Control) that was corrected in Visual Studio 6.0 Service Pack 3.
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>>Could this just be another bug?
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>>Any help would be appreciated.
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>>Thanks,