Thanks again. My previous experience has been almost entirely on database management (FoxPro) and I still tend to think in terms of directly accessing tables to edit data. I also find this particular brand of OOP a bit hard to get used to largely because I find the MS Help documentation to unhelpful to be polite abut it. As an example I had not grasped the concept of Range being both an object and a property. Can you recommend any texts that deal with MS Office OOP, preferably aimed at those of us who are not quite computer professionals.