Ouch. That's certainly a monumental screwup.

Have you been over to mvps.org? I know one of the office MVPs has published a page with info about the two versions cohabitating peacefully and *thought* I bookmarked it. But that must've been on another pc.

Dan

>Fred,
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>Nope, for some relatively obscure (read that as stupid) reason both versions share the same CLSID so you can't createobject() one over the other....
>
>>Can you just use CREATEOBJECT("Excel.Application.11") and CREATEOBJECT("Excel.Application.12")? The double clicking part would still be a problem.
>>
>>(Howdy, Dave. Long time no see.)