Honda,<br>
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In VB, if you make a variable public in a Module, you can just give the name to reference it. If you make a variable public in a form, you must reference it as formname.variablename to see it.<br>
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This may make it visible to the Active X control, but it really depends on the control itself. Give it a try.<br>
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Steve