Hi Fred,

Tom is right, if you use late binding, you don't need the reference to
VBIDE. Early binding and late binding both have it's dis/advantages.

If you use early binding it's easier to write the code (you take
benefit from intellisense), and you can later easily rewrite the code
for late binding - this is what I would suggest to you.

Anyway, if you are not familiar with any library, it is much more
comfortable to write your code using early binding.

If you plan to use your code in multiple environments it's safe to use
late binding - you can have different versions of libraries on each
computer and I simply don't believe that excel is clever enough to
choose the right one (although it should be able to choose the same
version or newer).

Regards,
Ivan