Automation opens the application in question and performs activities using
the instance of that application. Without having the application installed,
you cannot very well automate it.

- Jon
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Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP
Tutorials and Custom Solutions
Peltier Technical Services, Inc. - http://PeltierTech.com
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"Darrin" wrote in message
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Wonder if you can help....

I have a vbscript which I would like to run, which opens an Excel object,
refreshes some workbooks and saves the refreshed/updated versions. I
would
like to run this on a server as a daily job, however I dont want to
install
Excel on the Server. Is there anyway this can be done using Object
automation etc....

Thanks
Darrin