As I allready have stated I have abandoned Excel native format import because of the

problems.

But I became curios , will it work like described in the article which started this

thread. I have one machine with XP and VB2005, SQLserver2005 and Office2007 updated

I followed the procedure in the article but always get the encouring message:

Test connection failed because of an error in initializing provider. Invalid UDL file.

To my knowledge I have not done anything wrong but who knows?

Google did not give any strait answer so I gave up.

You fellows have you seen any pitchfalls like what I get?

//Gosta