I discovered and resolved the first item (My calling routine referenced the cmdOpen.click function). I am still puzzling over the second item though.

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1) The report loads in preview mode, but I am still getting queried to open a report. I will be looking into this.

2) The more troublesome problem I am having is that when I press the button for Excel, the Export Options form appears, but when I select 'Generate', I am not seeing anthing created except an empty folder in my application directory. I can't trace the code in the following command, but I expect that this is where the problem lies.