Report Generation Toolkit and Office XP and 2K

Hello Everybody
I am having few problems with running executable using Report Generation Toolkit on machine with Office 2000, which was compiled and build on machine with Office XP (toolkit also XP).
There are many errors which pops up, but the very first one is that the "New Report.vi" can not open the existing Excel book.
Is there any trick, which allows machines with Office 2k to run application build with Office XP?
Thanks in advance.
Pawel

Hi Cin
Yes, that is correct. The reason why I ask was how to find a solution so both XP and 2k can work in the same time.
You are right that most of the features for XO and 2k are simmilar, but try to use XP to open w 2k workbook from excel, it will fail.
cheers
Pawel

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