Larry,

Thanks so much for the help.

Your explanation, and suggestions, were exactly what I needed. Vlad, your comments also are appreciated, and support what Larry said.

I did run into one problem with one of your tips, Larry, that I can work around ... but if you see what I'm missing I would appreciate you pointing it out.

You offered two tips - the first worked exactly like you suggested.

The second tip (to pass an object with an array property to a CopyData method) also worked, but not by using ACOPY, as you suggested. I got a "Feature not available". However, I could store the elements of the COM array to the passed-in-object's array by using a FOR loop. I am assuming that Acopy is not available in the COM object for the reasons you already suggested. However, my assumptions are too often wrong... so if you know for a fact that Acopy should work in a COM object, any code snippet you could send that would show me how to use it would be most appreciated.

Thanks again for the help.