Precisely my point. Office 2003 installs no such key so it won't be present in the local system's registry without modification and you'll get the red X, the functional eqivalent of the old 429 error, Object could not be found. Greg Chapman http://www.mousetrax.com "Counting in binary is as easy as 01, 10, 11! With thinking this clear, is coding really a good idea?" > Office 2003 as a clean install. > > If you view the code behind that page, you see it clearly > points to this > specific clsid, which was NOT present in my computer with a > *clean* install > of Office 2003: > > <object classid="clsid:0002E510-0000-0000-C000-000000000046" > id="Spreadsheet1" width="576" height="235"> > > Linda F. Johnson, M.A., MOS > Linda's Computer Stop > http://personal-computer-tutor.com > Free e-Books, Newsletter, and tutorials > ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, send an email to mso-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" (without the quotes) in the subject line. Or, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu. This will also allow you to change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles *************************************************************