First off, thanks Paulo for your help with those URLS submitted. They certainly pointed me in the right direction. For the curious, I did manage to find another page with some sample code that was doing exactly the same types of stuff I was trying to accomplish. You can view that at.. http://www21.brinkster.com/wwwexpert/internet/excel.htm -jacques :) Hi Jacques, >What would be really helpful would be some reference to the >Excel COM object complete with objects and methods, but my >searching is bearing no fruit. If you use Visual Studio, you can try the Object Browser. Besides that, visit these urls: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vbaxl10/htm l/xltocObjectModelApplication.asp http://www.microsoft.com/officedev/articles/OMG/naug04xl.htm http://www.j-walk.com/ss/excel/index.htm I've had a terrible headache trying to work with asp & excel... Paulo Guedes -- For unsubscribe and other options, including the Tip Harvester and archive of thelist go to: http://lists.evolt.org Workers of the Web, evolt !