Cecil,

>Yep, I surely think it was because now that I am doing things in their proper order and am cleaning up after using Excel, things are now working properly. You know, there is a lot to think about when you mess around with Office Automation.

It's pretty powerful, and quite a PITA at time too! *lol* I've developed a pretty powerful XLT interpretter that let's us create very powerful reports by functionally embedding textmerge() and SQL SELECT statement results in the spreadsheet.

>Hey, you are in my home state. Are you a native Texan? I used to live in Round Rock, north of Austin a bit, maybe 20 miles north.

I've been a Texan for 10 years now live just on the other side of I-35 from Pfluggerville, lived in Virginia for 18 years and grew up and went to college in Missouri.

>I was exiled to California (USSR fo Kalifornia) years ago and have been here most of my adult life, due to the miltiary, aerospace, and FoxPro consulting. But, the glory days out here are all gone. There are no available FoxPro jobs out here these days except at CountryWide Home Loans (Bank of America owns it now) every now and then.
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>My DICE job alerts show very little activity in Texas and none in any other parts of the western Untied States. That is not a good sign.
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>I feel kind of dumb right now feeling that I should have gotten busy three years ago, or more, with .NET. But, ce la vie. At age 56, not many companies want to hire me, due to my advanced age, although I know I still look about age 25. (Ha! in my dreams only.)