Hard on them, no, I didn't mean to be :)

But I did forward a copy of this thread to them via email so that they can
include it if they so choose, least I could do after the help their site has
given me in the past! Thanks again!

"Dick Kusleika" wrote in message
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Jim

You're welcome. I think it's a curiousity of MSQuery that it needs OLEDB
or ODBC at the start of its connection strings. I guess it needs to know
if you're using OLE or ODBC so you have to tell it. So don't be too hard
on ConnectionStrings.com. :)

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