>Easy to say, harder to do I suppose. What would she have to do? Uninstall the ODBC driver and install the OLE driver? I was thinking "what a pain", but was forgetting they run the app off Terminal Services, so it should be just one change instead of a change on all the machines. Unless they are running Excel locally instead of via Terminal Services. I'll have to check. Thanks for the reply.
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>>For ODBC I don,t know all the options (ReadOnly might be available). She can instead use VFPOLEDB which has Read and Share Deny Write modes.
>>Cetin

She would install VFPOLEDB. Create a UDL file and choose that as connection for query (UDL is not a must but a connectionstring representation on file).

PS: If it's a problem, then any user with some coding knowledge and a notepad could access and update the data anyway. Excel is just making it easier.
Cetin