Doesn't your first article say:

Note Microsoft Office 2003 includes Primary Interop Assemblies (PIAs).
Microsoft Office XP does not include PIAs, but they can be downloaded. For
additional information about Office XP PIAs, click the following article
number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

It doesn't say anything about PIA's being available for xl2000 or xl97 or
any earlier version.

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Regards,
Tom Ogilvy


"gabe" wrote in message
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can anyone point me in the direction of material that would relate to,

i'm trying to take some data from a dataview in vb.net 2003 and create an
excel file.
i've read thru the kbs at
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/301982/EN-US/ and
http://support.microsoft.com/default...;EN-US;Q306022
and while they seem to work with my office 2003 installs, my dev machines
office 97 install throws several exceptions.

thanks
g