Maybe I should have posted in the 'newbie' forum for this, as my grasp of most things SQL-related is weak I don't understand how that would be implemented.

For clarity, though, my packages are not inter-related. My main objective here is to have more than one package run at once and not have them fighting over control of Excel as many of them use it on the local machine close to the beginning of their process. If I did not need to keep them from sharing Excel, I would just put all the packages into one package with no precedence constraints at all...

Thanks for the input and patience!

Tai