Hi Denis,

>Ultimately what I would like to do is to be able to call a phone number (I have a text field in my app that contains the phone number) there is a command button at the right of that text box.

loSkype = CREATEOBJECT("skype4com.skype")
loCall = loSkype.PlaceCall( Alltrim(Thisform.txtPhone.Value) )

>By the way I started a new thread giving more details on the problems that I have doing this.

Haven't yet come across the new thread, but will keep an eye open for it.