>>After I drop the "Common Dialog" Active X control onto a form
>>I try and access the property sheet. I get an
>>"OLE error code 0x800a018a: unknown OLE status code"
>>Thus, I cannot access the property sheet.
>>All the other standard Active X controls work fine.
>>
>>Also, the "comdlg32.ocx" in the windows\system directory is less than
>>325K ; I read somewhere that there is a problem with the version of the common dialog control that is bigger than 325 K.
>>
>>Thanks in advance.
>
>You might need to register the control. Type Regsvr32 comdlg32.ocx in the Windows Run dialog.

i tried that but i still got the same error message
but thanks for the idea though!

any other suggestions?

thanks
DAve