>The only way around this is to remove the first row, and the easiest way
>may be through DDE (assuming no user intervention). Since I've not done
>DDE to Excel, I'll leave the rest of the details to the rest of the crew
>here.

I thought of that, but it is too unreliable and slow. And some computers
may not even have Excel installed. ("Than why need the Excel format?!" - long story.)

Thanks anyway,

jody