I have it running now on an XP box with Excel 2003.

I am pretty sure I have an old copy of office '97 around here somewhere, and
an old box with Win 98 on it that I could setup, It's just that I was hoping
to have this for her to use tomorrow. And finding where I put that CD is
going to be the challenge. I never thought I'd need it again.

A workaround is for her to FTP the files and I run it and FTP back the
results. So either way it'll happen.

Thanks for the comments.

Ken Loomis

"Bob Phillips" wrote in message
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Ken,

Don't know of a surefire reference, just experience of what it doesn't
have,
like the Split method.

I suppose you want to get it running before moving the XL97 machine?

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HTH

RP

"Ken Loomis" wrote in message
...
Actually, I don't have a machine with Office 97 on it. I am trying to get
a
copy of Excel 97 for that purpose, but this project is actually just a
freebie for a friend whose IT department said it couldn't be done. I just
laughed when she told me that. I had never programmed in VBA before last
weekend when I started on this. With about 20 hours of programming (and
lots
of help from this newsgroup, thanks for all the help), I have a complete
package that combines 4 separate db query results files into one report,
complete with lots of editing and formatting. It used to take her two
hours
to do this by hand and she had to do it once a week. Now it will take her
2
minutes. But now I find out that they only have Excel 97, but why does
that
surprise me when the IT department said this couldn't be done.

There only seems to be a couple of incompatibilities in the arguments for
a
couple of calls. 'Sort' being one of them I know about for sure. So I was
hoping I could find a reference that told about the incompatibilities.

Thanks,
Ken Loomis


"Bob Phillips" wrote in message
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Ken,

Do you not have an Excel97 machine that you can develop on? It is
better
than trying to ensure backwards compatibility.

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HTH

RP

"Ken Loomis" wrote in message
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I am using Excel 2003, but I need to be sure what I write in VBA will
run
on
a machine with Excel 97.

Is there a reference somewhere that talks about how to make your
programs
compatible with older versions of Excel?

Thanks,
Ken Loomis