Cool! ++ As for why. Quick and dirty hack to get the job done leveraging VBS? and (limited) Perl knowledge. Your way is much neater. I just did not know about it at the time when we needed it done yesterday ;-) I have only relatively recently started to use Win32::OLE.

cheers

tachyon

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