How can you edit an excel file without having excell installed. No way. But there is a way arround.

First your program should check whether excel is installed or not. If installed take the normal course for creation editing etc. If not installed, take another course in you program for creation of a text file (if already created in an earlier run, Append,update etc ),with delimiters corressponding to columns and lines as raws. Later when installed you can check the existence of this text file and convert it to excel file and the earlier one deleted.

It is really a very brilliant task.

If you have the patience and a Will, get back to me. I will explain to you the details. For the time being, warn the User that your program required excel to be installed and exit.


Happy Programming

regards
AV Manoharan

when u create the set up using package and deployment wizard , it will automaticall include all the .dll ,.ocx and other required files with the set up. All these files will be installed in the target system at the time of installation. So it is not necessary to install Excel in that system. your application will work fine.
But the only problem is u will not get an Excel file to work on.

ok, i want to use this to create a report, but i need to put colors in the cells, and to merge some cells too, ... so things i can only do with excel...
There are some visors, wich are used to see and edit the excel content of a file, so... i want the program to create the excel reports, without the need of have excel installed in the computer.
If i use text or csv files (..or something like that), maybe i couldn't give to the user reports with the optimal format, and also the report may not be read for any visor for excel...
That's why i'm looking for one way to create a excel file without have excel installed.