Thanks Bob, and Craig guessed right - I was thinking ActiveX!

My brian gets muddled with these acronyms, especially as they change so often!

Cheers,

Jim N

>>Craig,
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>>I had thought that VFP could not be used to create COM objects.
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>Yes it can. Basically what was called an Automation Server in 5.0 docs is called a COM object in 6.0.
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>BOb