>>>In my reporting section, I'm giving a option of transferring reports to excel..
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>>>Here, I am simply redirecting the output to a txt file and then starting excel with the txt file name as the command line parameter...
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>>>I have questions for the same :-
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>>>1. Is there any way I can retrieve the Path of Microsoft Excel, so I can provide it in the run parameter..
>>>as on every machine it is not sure that its installed in same dir..
>>>
>>>2. Is there any better way to do this whole thing...
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>>Look in the samples provided by MS, they are very help in this regard.. You will want to use OLE to try and strta up a copy of Excel, and if the BUILDOBJ() fails, they have NO Excel loaded..
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>>Thanx!
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>>Tony Miller
>>Vancouver, Wa
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>Pls note that I'm Using VFP 3.0b, Can u pls tell me where is the example given for Excel ??

Under samples, I do believe there is an example of OLE driven applications.. However, doing this under 3.0 is not as great as 5.0...


Thanx!

Tony Miller
Vancouver, Wa