Thanks to both.
I was just trying to follow J. Peterson's white paper. I'll skip the part on creating data links using udl's.

Gaylen

>>>I am just starting to work with ADO and can't get off first base(bad sign). I installed MDAC 2.6. I thought I could right click on the desktop - click new and the Menu item Microsoft Data Link would appear. It doesn't.
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>>That option was removed with (I think) MDAC 2.5. As Tim points out, you can work around this by renaming the file. However, keep in mind that if Microsoft removed the feature, they might be giving you a hint. :-)