>Thanks, Bruce, but I was using GetObject() with its parameter list successfully on the first 4 computers tested. Only when it didn't work on the fifth did I try CreateObject() with its own parameters. Too bad - would have been an easy fix.
Oh well...good luck, anyway, sounds like a tricky problem.
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and frankly, quite content not to be
a member of either major US political party.