well Jaime, I do use vfp6 with sp5 mdac_type 2.6 office 2000 windows 98 arabic enabled fisrt edition(Recommended) on network than second edition.

when I run my app. on a machine having office 97 it dosen't work so I have 2 options:
1- install visual fox
2- office 2000

and the opesite way also, I think there is deffrent map charicter o exe with office 2000 than office 97.

thanks
Hisham