Thanks for the suggestion. Im not certyain how I would move the opening code, can you
enlightn me. Is there some sort of commandf like "application.splashscreen=False", or is
there VBA code I could insert?

By the way, the auto_open in my spreadsheet does fire when I open from Access, in fact
thats one of the keys to the whole operation.

Thanks

John Baker

"Bob Phillips" wrote:

John,

You could move the splash screen open to the Auto_Open macro, that doesn't
fire when Excel is opened via Automation.