excel97 vs.excel 2000 vi's

[Álvaro Oslé]

I've found some examples about working excel with labview. That's great! But
I still have some problems. I can't execute those programs. I mean, I'm
working with Office 2000 and I only can run those programs made for Office
2000. Why? I can't run office 97 vi's.
I've looked at the block diagram of programs made for both versions and I've
found that they are very similar, almost equal. What's the matter with
it????? I can't execute both. And they are apparently the same...
I get errors mainly about the property node and invoke node.
Any help will be great!!

Thanks!!!

Alvaro.

[dmf]

"Álvaro Oslé" wrote:
>I've found some examples about working excel with labview. That's great!
But>I still have some problems. I can't execute those programs. I mean, I'm>working
with Office 2000 and I only can run those programs made for Office>2000.
Why? I can't run office 97 vi's.>I've looked at the block diagram of programs
made for both versions and I've>found that they are very similar, almost
equal. What's the matter with>it????? I can't execute both. And they are
apparently the same...>I get errors mainly about the property node and invoke
node.>Any help will be great!!>>Thanks!!!>>Alvaro.>>


If you are referring to the "Write table to XL.vi" try doing the following:

1) Go into the block diagram and open up the vi "Open Excel and make vi
sible.vi"
2) Right mouse click on Automation refnum (The label is titled exel._application)
3) Check to see that under the area "Select ActiveX class" that excel is
selected.
If not you will have to browse through your directories and locate
excel8.olb for
excel97 (I don't know what it is for excel 2000).
4) After that, go to the property and invoke nodes and reconnect the wires.

This happened to me just a week ago, and the above procedure fixed it.

Hope you're succcessful.

-df

[CraigGraham]

Álvaro Oslé wrote in message
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> I've found some examples about working excel with labview. That's great!
But
> I still have some problems. I can't execute those programs. I mean, I'm
> working with Office 2000 and I only can run those programs made for Office
> 2000. Why? I can't run office 97 vi's.
> I've looked at the block diagram of programs made for both versions and
I've
> found that they are very similar, almost equal. What's the matter with
> it????? I can't execute both. And they are apparently the same...
> I get errors mainly about the property node and invoke node.
> Any help will be great!!

Are you running the latest Labview version? There were problems of this type
in earlier releases of
v5, but 5.1.1 resolved them at least for my programs
here.