You should definately get the Office Automation book from Hentzenwerke. It will clear things up for you.
>I agree that DDE may be dead but it works great for what I am doing. I can load 1000 records 4cells from excel per record in less that 7 seconds and that is coming from 4 different spreadsheets. I looked at the automation but still dont understand it enough to use it.
Craig Berntson
MCSD, Microsoft .Net MVP, Grape City Community Influencer