>Yeah - I'm going to have to explore all these new methods of "running" my apps in the future.
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>Thanks


I think you'll be surprised at the power of ole automation. It's a good way to extend applications and share information between applications. Using an object browser is also a good way to see how object models are designed (not that all object models in these apps are very-well thought out). It can also prevent you from having to develop something from scratch that is available elsewhere.