Thanks David. Sounds like things will indeed get easier with Office 2003. Unfortunately, for this project, most of the clients will have Office 2000. Nevertheless, thanks for the heads-up.

Al

>Allan,
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>>I'm going to be working on a project soon in which one of the requirements will be to do some MS Office automation. I've done this many times using VB6 - but I want this to me my first C# app. Can anyone point me to any resources for Office automation using C#?
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>This is about to get much easier in .NET with the upcoming release of Office 2003 and the Office Tools for .NET add-on (Robert Green's new baby). He demonstrated it at VS-Live back in February and it gives you a whole set of .NET classes to work with Office in an incredibly easy fashion.
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>Unfortunately, it's only for Office 2003, which is still in beta, but betas of both are widely available, including in recent MSDN Subscription shipments, I believe -- I know it's in the Universal May Shipment.
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>You might find more info available on MS site - sorry, I don't have alink for you at the moment.