@mdawson: Thank you very much for your post. Your solution worked for me. What I'm trying to figure out is why isn't your solution already set up in a package in a suite of samples that one gets when one installs SSIS? How else does Microsoft figure a person would use Excel as an output of a job, if you can't rerun it over & over without it appending to the Excel file? I mean, I suppose there is a possible use case out there where you would want a file to grow infinitely, but that would be way more obscure a case than one in which you want to replace the file with the latest data. I agree with those that have commented that there is a strange dearth of information about SSIS. In my opinion, there is no better way to learn than by example. Examples like webcasts where you watch someone do something you want to do, or prefab sample code that you can invoke and then modify to your own purposes. Why do they create a powerful tool and then leave us to more or less fend for ourselves?