Hi, I would appreciate help with the following. I would like to be able to initiate a perl script that is residing on a linux server from an Excel workbook. I am working on the Excel workbook in Windows. I would appreciate any pointers, sample code for accomplishing this in VBA or some other method. The perl script that I am trying to call will take the information from a mysql database and update the Excel sheet. The script will also take information from the Excel sheet and update the database. thanks very much.