I think this process of component instantiation is works good function fun1() { var objVar; var x; objVar = new ActiveXObject("ProgID"); x = objVar.YourMethod(required Aurguments); } Raveendra Madupu Member Technical Staff Network Programs India Limited raveendra@engineer.com

I hope that this will work Text1.Text = trim(cstr(vNumber(x))) since the return variable is Variant type, before getting its value to the text box convert it into text type. Raveendra Madupu Member Technical Staff Network Programs India Limited raveendra@engineer.com