Thanks for the responses I've had to my original post. When I've had chance to go through them all, I'll post a summary. Some of you pointed out that the paper manuals, or tech. support would tell me what I wanted to know. Well, as I think I mentioned, this is an academic exercise for me, part of my masters dissertation. I'm using an evaluation copy (v5.5) of MapInfo downloaded from their web site, and so I don't have any paper manuals, and probably don't qualify for tech support. Also, I don't have any support available to me via my workplace, where ArcView is the product used. I have read the online help - trouble is some of the menu options it refers don't seem to be available on my copy - there is no 'Open ODBC Table' option, but there is an 'Open DBMS table'. Also, when I opened an Access table directly, using the interface (and as I thought ODBC) the ODBC 'refresh' option isn't visible anywhere as far as I can tell. So, if anyone can provide the details I asked for - particularly in relation to DDE and OLE,- I would be extremely grateful, and all help will be properly acknowledged. Thanks again for all the help I have had so far relating to ODBC, and please let me have some help with DDE and ODBC if you can. Sharon ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
