Hi, Just a quick question hopefully. We have a web site set up whereby remote users log-in (I guess Windows Authenticated or whatever). One user logs in as administrator while the second as a plain user. The administrator can use the perl/cgi script fine. The other user cannot and gets an "Access is Denied" when she hits the code trying to initialize Excel (using GetActiveObject method). We've checked the permissions on the Excel.exe and set the permissions accordingly on the whole Microsoft Office directory but still it gives this error. Should the permissions be checked solely on the Registry key for Excel.Application or are there more things needed to be checked for permissions? Many thanks. Rob