Use the second method, with the first one there is a performance hit every time you access the object because VB has to check whether the object has already been instanciated.

Roman

>Some objects can be coded as
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Dim x As New myObject

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>while some others should be done this way
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Dim x as myObject
>Set x = New myObject

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>How do I know which is which and why the different approach?
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>Just wondering...
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>Tnx Ü