Thanks Herman, OLE objects confuse me and I am a programmer and have done some windows programming. Where I ran into a mess was opening two instances of AB. I was manual trading using a data feed and opened an EOD instance of AB and used AmiQuote to download EOD data. The EOD data went into the first instance of AB that I opened corrupting my intraday database. That was really unexpected. I don't know why Microsoft designed it that way. It seems really lame not to be able to tie database A goes with instance A and database B goes with instance B but it doesn't seem to work that way.
Barry
