Thanks, Jeff and Richard, for your replies. This is a vertical niche app, so we're conservative about making changes that would require reconfiguration or new dependencies on external software at multiple sites. Invariably, we find incompatibilities and extra costs associated with the changes.
Luckily, at this point, we're outputting as a report output format and don't need to do import. We have both CSV for flat tabular output and a couple of specialized reports using Automation; it's these last that aren't working. New info: they are running Office 2007 on a Windows 8 laptop. Still waiting on the exact error message. On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Richard Kaye <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't think it's the OS. You definitely need the 32 bit version of Excel > installed. To the best of my knowledge the COM stuff does not work in 64 > bit versions of Office. > > -- > rk > > -----Original Message----- > From: ProfoxTech [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ted > Roche > Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2013 10:12 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: FoxPro, Windows 8 and Office Automation? > > A client is reporting problems with Excel Automation on Windows 8. > Gathering more details at this point (like, versions? etc.) but they're a > remote client and hard to get hold of. > > Anyone have a quick answer for why a VFP 9 app, running for decades, would > not start up Excel on a Windows 8 machine? Is it 64-bitness vs. 32-bit? New > version of Automation incompatible with VFP? Other guesses welcomed. > > -- > Ted Roche > Ted Roche & Associates, LLC > http://www.tedroche.com > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/cacw6n4vgyseznj6ql+w93ku5tea5yco8xzqkkmfubxpunqt...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
