>I inherited the requirement for Excel to be the main controller - I would
never have designed it that way. However, it all works well and reasonably
quickly.

Cool. Yeah, being a Wordie at heart, I always use Word to control traffic,
but as I said in the previous email, my Sybase experience causes me to run
screaming from non-MS DBs when working with Word...even if the real problem
was the client and his troubleshooting skills.

Telecommuting/Consulting is fun. But there ARE times when I'd just like to
reach through the phone/email, grab the client and scream...WOULD YOU PLEASE
READ THE DIRECTIONS I SENT YOU AND DO IT AS I TOLD YOU TO DO IT!!!!!! (I'd
mentioned the addin issue much earlier in the project, but he blew it
off...sure the problem wasn't HIS