>Hi Bruce,
>
>This should work. I copied this line directly from your post into the command window and it worked fine with Excel97. Sorry I can't be of more help but thought I'd confirm for you that your syntax is correct. Good luck.

Okay, thanks...must be some local problem. When I use

oExcel=createobject("Excel.Sheet"), it seems to work, but I have more errors after I try to open a file or make it visible. But I may be using the wrong syntax for this object...I'll poke around in the KB to see what I can find...