Hi,

Yes its so much simpler, but I came across an issue opening Excel on the server in that there is no known way to close the application afterwards and the server is left with a mounting pile of Excel apps every time the import is run that would have to be manually killed off as processes. This may have been because I wasn't referencing the assembly (please let me know if this is the case) but in the end I reverted to pulling in the spreadsheet directly and then obtaining cell values via the ASP page through a dataset.