eg. IXRect *pRect IXRect *p; mDoc->get_Rect(&p); pRect = p; pls see above the code. whenever i change the member value of p, mDoc.Rect values are changed. also how to avoid it. i want to copy values only from mDoc.Rect Object to p . how to do :doh: shadrach

hi friends i have created one object called pIImage. I have to give the object pIImage as A argument to AddImage(). IN VARIANT type. how to convert one object to VARIANT type :sigh: eg. hr = CoCreateInstance(CLSID_Image,NULL,CLSCTX_INPROC_SERVER,IID_IImage,(void **)&pIImage); pDoc->AddImage(pIImage) error C2664: 'AddImage' : cannot convert parameter 1 from 'struct XYZ5::IImage *' to 'struct tagVARIANT' Shadrach