It's running on Windows NT. The user is an administrator and has full rights to the folder and can open the file manually.

Is there a way to create the Excel object and determine that it's Excel 97?

Jim

>>All,
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>> I have a client with Excel 97 running on a machine. My VFP program opens a workbook, but when the code runs I get a workbooks does not evaluate to an object. The code(below) works with Excel 2000 and XP. What's wrong?
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>>    oExcel = Createobject("Excel.application")
>>    oExcel.workbooks.open(".....")
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>Jim,
>I believe it's not Excel97 problem. As far as I can remember in Excel97 (win9x,win2k) I was opening the workbooks same way. I've clients still using Excel97 on different platforms.
>Sounds like the answer is hidden in ellipsis. Is it a fullpath to a file that user have necessary rights to open ?
>And could user open it manually from Excel w/o any error ? (some linked objects for example were a cause to fail)
>Cetin