Hi JohnWilson,

Many thanks again for your excellent help, I was really stuck on this one. I must remember to "declare, set, with" for each object I operate on. Setting a reference for oPA and oPP did the trick, well after I removed that erroneous reference to ppt. And thanks for the heads up to remove those two scaleHeight/ScaleWidth lines. Thank you again, and long live this forum and VBA!