"David Fixemer" wrote in message
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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 mean that if you develop your user forms on the machine
that had Visual Studio you may use them in an add-in on a
machine which doesnot

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?


But what do you want this control to do ?

There are THOUSANDS of them , you could
even develop one yourself with VS6

Keith