>Ed - I'll try it, but WHY would I need the DCOM components on a plain-vanilla form with nothing but pageframes and grids? This is VFP5.

As mentioned before, i didn't read far enough. There are lots of things broken in SP1 that were fixed in SP3 and later.

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>Thanks,
>Barbara
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>>Bring NT to SP3 or SP4, which add the DCOM components, as will adding IE 3.02 or later.
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>>On Win95 boxes, add DCOM via DCOM95 from the MS site, DCOM98 from the VS distribution, or add IE 3.02 or later.