Sorry it took so long to respond, pre-disposed. :-)

Anyway, yeah I know COM is re-usable, just new turf for me and didn't have time for the learning curve, dealing with "DLL hell", etc.

Thanks

>Can you elaborate on that? What makes you think that COM is not re-usable?
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>>I want to avoid COM unless absolutely necessary. These are not re-usable modules anyway.