>My advice for this immediate problem, moving the dat around, is to stop using it as your learning vehicle. Get on it with and write the code knowing that OOP folks have said it is OK for the two objects to access the same cursor no matter how strange that may sound to you right now.

Jim,

That's great advice on many levels. In trying to grasp some Word and Excel automation a while back I spent way too much time on trying to understand all the nuances for the task at hand. I finally told myself to just use the proven code samples to get it to perform the functionality and go back later to understand why it was doing what it did. I did and I understood it better having a working example using my own case. Since then I've tried to apply that to other things as I learn - expecially very recently in using WSH.

Renoir