>Must excel be installed on the client machine in order to issue loExcel = CREATEOBJECT('Excel.Application') from that client?
Automation involves running Excel. Excel is "remote-controlled" from VFP. Thus, all Excel commands (more precisely, all commands that Excel exposes) are available.
If the client machine doesn't have Excel, you have to use a method like COPY TO ... TYPE XLS.
Hilmar.
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