Well, I still can not reproduce the behaviour no matter what file formats/form methods I used. If you wish, send to me your form and the xls file; I will see whether I can help.

>Yuri:
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>The exact error message is as I had specified it -- I know it looks strange, but that's exactly what it says:
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> OLE IDispatch exception code 0 from ?: ?..
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>The worksheet name isn't already set to the same value. I experimented with changing the value I'm trying to set, but this error occurs no matter what the value is for the new worksheet name.
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>Regards,
>Doug