At it's simplest, you need to have a derived class which ignores any input messages; you can add a PreTranslateMessage function (if it's MFC) that simply returns non-zero if the message it has is an input message (WM_xBUTTONx, WM_KEYx or WM_CHAR) Steve S

Most databases require special characters to be escaped if they are part of sql. For some databases you can choose you escape sequence others have predefined '\'.... Characters '[,=+-&%#!@">

This sample, HOWTO: Automate Microsoft Word to Perform a Mail Merge Using Visual C++ and MFC[^] should point you in the right direction (you probably won't need the mail merge stuff but it does show you how to fill a table.) Michael 'Logic, my dear Zoe, merely enables one to be wrong with authority.' - The Doctor: The Wheel in Space