Hi Shaun - thank you for that. I also just read your reply on Gruss & sent you an email!. I will try yours tomorrow; however that is virtually the same as mine; and when I run it I get an API-Error. But thinking I have been running under excel 2003 - even though I do have office 2010. I have tried it on 2 machines laptop visa and desktop/windows 7 and I have even bypassed my modem and ran it on a portable Broad bad modem - still same results - so very puzzling. Never mind I will keep trying. I will let you know tomorrow the results I get with yours.

Once again thanks for the kind offer - and I will use 2010 tomorrow. Regards, Fred