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