>(this isnt necessarily for Erik, I just picked somewhere near end)
>
>So ok, < smirk >
>Now that I found the additional wizards (amazing what you can see when you actually extract xsource.zip).
>
>And we've all determined I'm NOT talking about the general VFP app wiz (heee heee heee... never knew being braindead was contagoius!)
>
>And I've played with the guts of the pivot wizard half the night (ya know there is a really neat class definition for oPivot objects that could be extremely useful to build a semi-dynamic reporting app)...
>
>What the easiest way nowadays to verify Excel is installed on the user's machine before launching an external app like this to do it's thing? Check the reigstry?

Have not used the wiz your talking about but I have a lot of users that just delete the directory with out doing an uninstall. I think I would stick with

on error errflag=.t.
create object excel
if errflag=.t.
   no excel
else
   do it
endif

Of course you will want to save and reset your on error.


Jeff