You upgraded the local or remote machine? You may need to register the DLL again if it was the server.

How about this syntax for CREATEOBJECTEX ():

ox = CREATEOBJECTEX ("excel.application", "", "")

HTH

>I have been using
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>ox = createobjectex("{1D836EC8-10AE-11D4-9A78-0050DAB55C7B}","")
>ox.ResetPrinterDC(lcprinter,.hDC,2)
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>to call a dll that changes the duplex setting of the printer.
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>We finally upgraded to win2000 and and I am getting an error
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>OLE error code 0x80040154: Class not registered.
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>I would assume that is because the ID changed on the win2k machines.
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>Is there a way to get the class id? Or is there a better way to do this?