I have a program that uses word, excel, acrobat5, VB6, and posts to the web. The program works with a DOA conection. I am trying to upgrade the project to do away with the DAO. I have upgraded this with a hard coded connection and I can load the form, but when I try to run the program I get an an error stating it does not support animation or does not support the expected interface. I am using the excel driver, and have referneced my cells like this: ActiveSheet.Cells(filecnt,2). Would the reference method work better then ActiveSheet.Cells? Is there any one out there that has done something similar? Thanks hopsy38