Hi Mike, Thanks! I will give that a try. I am doing the bulk of my drawing in OnDraw() but I need to drag a selection rectangle during the MouseDown, MouseMove, MouseUp events so I need to (or at least I think I need to :)) have the DC outside of what is handed to me in OnDraw() ?? Thanks again, Doug Doug Knudson

A few solutions to the problem were found in this thread. Regards, --Perspx "The Blue Screen of Death, also known as The Blue Screen of Doom, the "Blue Screen of Fun", "Phatul Exception: The WRECKening" and "Windows Vista", is a multi award-winning game first developed in 1995 by Microsoft" - Uncyclopedia Introduction to Object-Oriented JavaScript

I suggest you read some about how to automate Excel. Have a look in the references section in this article[^] and see if you can find anything useful for you. I don't think the article itself is of any use for you, but the links may very well be. Hope this helps -- Roger "It's supposed to be hard, otherwise anybody could do it!" - selfquote "No one remembers a coward!" - Jan Elfström 1998 "...but everyone remembers an idiot!" - my lawyer 2005 when heard of Jan's saying above

Thank you very much! Works like a charm! Doug Doug Knudson

Maybe. I was stuck on OS/2 then though. "The time has come," the Walrus said, "To talk of many things..."

Your problem is the usage of BSTR value after the _bstr_t's destructor. Change bData's type from BSTR to _bstr_t: _bstr_t bData; ... bData = documentTypeArray.GetAt(row); sa.PutElement(elementIndex,(BSTR) bData); With best wishes, Vita

This is the article you probably want http://www.codeproject.com/gdi/customcaption.asp?target=lorde[^] Roger Allen Sonork 100.10016 Were you different as a kid? Did you ever say "Ooohhh, shiny red" even once? - Paul Watson 11-February-2003