It sounds like a rights issue. Try to run code from Is Word/Excel installed Message #566432. Maybe it'll provide some additional info.

? CheckServer("Word.Application")

>For years, I have been writing programs that start Excel for OLE automation tasks with: oSprdsheet=CREATEOBJECT("Excel.Application")
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>Last week, this quit working on a remote Citrix Metaframe server that now gives the error message: "OLE error code 0x80070005: Access is denied"
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>I am running the same .exe file as the one that worked early last week. This same .exe file also still starts Excel fine on all the standalone PCs.
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>There is no foxuser.dbf and my config.fpw has not changed.
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>I also have VFP6 installed on the Citrix server, and just typing oSprdsheet=CREATEOBJECT("Excel.Application") at a command prompt also generates the "Access denied" error.
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>I have checked ? SET("OLEOBJECTS") and it is ON.
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>I have also tried oWord = GETOBJECT("","Word.Basic") and oSprdsheet = GETOBJECT("","Excel.Application") and get the same errors.
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>The IT folks claim that nothing has changed with the server, accounts, rights, etc.
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>Does anyone have any idea why this no longer works.
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>Thanks
>Jeff