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That looks like the baby! Many thanks

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This greatly depends on the setup technology you're using. If you're using an actually installation technology like Windows Installer, InstallShield setup, Wise setup, Nullsoft setup, or anything else then you can write a registry key with the path of the executable. If you're just doing XCOPY deployment (or otherwise dragging and dropping) then no. You need to consult your installation builder documentation for this. This is not a C#-related question. This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Software Design Engineer Developer Division Sustained Engineering Microsoft [My Articles]

Top most is set to false, and I don't change it in code. But thanks for the suggestion, it rules something out.

Thanks for the quick reply. I found the Control.Bounds property and set this in the load event. Seems to work just fine.

There is no way to "lock" the Excel process. You can't really handle the WorkbookLoad event either, because that event fires AFTER the new workbook is loaded... RageInTheMachine9532 "...a pungent, ghastly, stinky piece of cheese!" -- The Roaming Gnome

To answer my own question: WorkSheet.UsedRange; but this range includes cells have formatting, but may be empty.

Thanks for your comments. The majority of the time the app will be run on a single instance processor machine, but there may be a case where the volume of data is so large a multi machine could be used. I wish the database would control data duplication, but the data is so poor and badly supplied that I have to do all the checking that I can. For example the data is in XML format and one 33mb file had over 10,000 violations against the schema, but it was well formed! In the interests of simplicity I leave it as single threaded.