>I have a question for you. You mentioned "has anyone found a way to send >Unicode string from VFP into any Office 97 app " > >I am currently designing an application send stuff to Excel 97 thru >automation (quite a bit of VFP-based Excel Automation that works fine >despite VFP Excel VBA looks more is more of blind-testing than clean >programming). > >The app works fine on WIN95 clients (no UNICODE). Shall i need to tackle >the UNICODE issue you raised if the application is deployed on NT stations >and how ? >in all countries .. in some .. > >Best regards from Paris Office 97 uses unicode, no matter the platform (I think so, otherwise they'd have compatibility issues when porting documents between machines using same software on different platforms). Since you probably use the default western codepage (1252) it translates to proper unicode automatically without problem; it's us with 1250 or 1251 or other who have the problem.