>Cetin
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>One more question if I may.
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>I have tried to run the program on a numer of other machines and they all come up with the message OXLS is not an object. They all run win2kpro vfp6 sp5 and office 2000.
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>1 machine has office 97 and it works beautifully even though the original spreadsheet was created in excel 2000. What am I missing? Any dcom/mdac settings? any ole settings?
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>Any ideas?
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>Colin

Colin,
I'd first check if that's a security issue (happens with default pre installations of Office by brand name computers - default security doesn't let object manipulation).

Try this on machines that it fails :

oExcel = createobject('Excel.Application')
oExcel.Quit

If it's a security thing then would fail on createobject line. Go and set permissions from DCOM then.
Cetin