Hi John,

>We need to control excel from within fp2.6w....Using DDEinitiate() we are getting an error. That it can't execute "excel.exe". The program or one of its components is damaged or missing.

Excel must be running already, before you can use DDE. You can use the RUN command to launch Excel. You probably have to let the user specify where Excel is located, as I don't think that there's an easy way from FPW to read this information from the registry.

Christof