atregent wrote: Is there a way to open a word document and unlink, or lock, the fields before they update? This question is geared more towards a Word-centric forum than VB.NET. AFAIK, there's no way to stop the field from updating, but I could be wrong. A guide to posting questions on CodeProject[^] Dave Kreskowiak Microsoft MVP Visual Developer - Visual Basic      2006, 2007

You may take a look at this article. http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/dragdrop.asp I haven't tried to do like that in C# but I have done in VB6 so I'm sure that you will be able to do that in C# too. Thanks and Regards, Michael Sync ( Blog: http://michaelsync.net) "Please vote to let me (and others) know if this answer helped you or not. A 5 vote tells people that your question has been answered successfully and that I've pitched it at just the right level. Thanks."

I think, for now at least. All they did was send a few dozen messages to other ebay members advertising their web store. http://shopele.com They were even good enough to include an email address (shopele@hotmail.com) And they don't even appear to be in Australia (where both I and my ebay account are): http://www.enom.com/domains/whois.asp?DomainName=shopele.com[^] I'm not quite sure what the best thing to do with all this information is. Any suggestions?

Thanks for all your input, I've decided that the 50" is the one for me!:-D

My favorite... what are your goals in five years? "I would like to be your boss." BTW, show me a 2D array...

Thanks guys, I went the file scavenger option, and although it did take an hour or so to scan the lost partition, it managed to recover everything. :) Today's job, everything is being backed up to dvd...