Are you sure you have the latest Service Patch for Office XP? The command you showed below works fine in VFP6 and VFP7 for Office XP.

>I can successfully automate Excel 2000 (Office 2000) from VFP6.0 but as soon as I try to automate Excel 2002 (Office 2000) VFP gives a Fatal Error: Exception Code = C0000005 at the following line.
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>oExcel = CREATEOBJECT("Excel.Application") && Works for Excel 2000
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>What works for Excel 2002?
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>Is this a MDAC issue?