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>>>This was incredibly fun to do. By the way, during testing, be sure to make Excel visible. Otherwise, if your program crashes, an invisible Excel is still running, and your computer won't be happy with 14 or 15 instances of Excel running!!!! You can even watch the data magically filling in.
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>>Cindy,
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>>Have you tried using GETOBJECT instead of CREATEOBJECT to use an instance of any COM object? The GETOBJECT requires an error handler to execute CREATEOBJECT if the object is not found.
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>Thanks Tom. Just tried it. (I'm a little new to OOP.) Now I'll reach for oExcel = GETOBJECT( , [Excel.Application]) thanks to you.

Cindy,

Cetin mentioned a few items that I did not consider, and I am going to look at John's site.