George,

Thanks for the info. I have already changed my programming to use createObject() instead of getObject(), but now I see that there is good reason for this (in case my company upgrades to Excel 2000).

Paul A. Busbey
I.S. Department
Sparagowski & Associates

>Hi Paul,

>Just an FYI for future reference. Excel 2000 spawns a new instance with each >file that opened. I've opined here that this may mean that we can forget about >GetObject() and stick to CreateObject() with that version. Of course, you'd >have to check the registry to make that determination.