Keith,

Your assumption that I'm "using these controls in the
design environment" is indeed correct and it does appear
to be a licensing issue. My PC at home does have Visual
Studio 6.0. I'm confused when you say "but any office
installation may use them." I'm kind of looking for a
single activeX control that someone developed (Free of
course). It seems that I should be able to install this
into my registry and use it in my Excel97 design
environment?

Thanks for your response,

David Fixemer