>HELP _ frustrated in gloom over non-functioning pivots..............
>Last year in Thread #40706 Message #40773, Nabil Ghrayyeb & Arnon Gaz exchanged comments with others on the forum about using pivot tables to export data from VFP into Excel, however no-one commented upon the fact that there is a wizard included under the TOOLS/WIZARDS menu.
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>Having successfully used pivot tables FROM INSIDE Excel to gather data from VFP tables to send pivot-analyzed data on to spreadsheets in Excel and to reports in WORD, we now have a project to integrate the whole process directly from within (i.e. starting up in) VFP (5.0a to Office 97). I.E. original data is first generasted by SQP in VFP and needs to be pivottabled to work in Excel, instantiating Excel from within the overall VFP program: should be easy'''''''''''
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>So do you think the wizard will work for me? ~;( NO!!!!!!!
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>The pivot wizard is "wzpivot.app" it apparently needs a parameter "pivot" - for which I can find no explanation anywhere and any way, when called, puts up immediate the error message "invalid path or file name" and next error is "class definition WIZBLDR not found" & other errors follow with the app never actually coming to life.
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>Question:
> a) has anyone ever succeeded in using this wizard?
> b) any clues as to what might be wrong in calling it here?
> c) anyone know of a workaround if all else fails, other than just using the process from within Excel - which defeats the purpose of this project.
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>Looking forward to getting the real skinny on this challenge from you Guru's and Wizards out there in UT land. Thnx in advance. /psb.
Hi Patricia,
Although pivot works with Excel quite good, it's a pity MS changed object model in Office 97. Now I uninstalled Office 97 to be able to use pivot tables. Like talking to word has also changed somewhat, I think the problem is related with version. Try your case with Office 95 or Excel 5.0.
Cetin