thank you guys, I think both of your suggests might work, but the first one looks like used in a web app, and the second one is cool. Though i haven't tried any. Coz I think i found what i wanted, http://support.microsoft.com/kb/302902/[^] go to 'late binding', it's working for now, there's the test stuff later.but so far it worked on two workstations with MSoffice 2003 and the other 2000. Thanks a lot for your help though, and i might use one of these methods if the current one fails, if not it's still good knowledge for me and ppl who might face such problems. thanks