note clemburg <p> Hm, I am not sure want you want here: <p> <ol> <li>Open a file with MS Access after you have found it somehow in a perl process - easy, just launch MS Access with the filename as argument by way of the <code>system()</code> function - or even just launch the file name by way of <code>system("start $filename")</code>, which should work if the extension for MS Access is configured normally on the machine in question. <li>Open an MS Access file by OLE - last time I did this (long time ago), I used <code>my ($obj) = Win32::OLE->GetObject($file);</code> to get an OLE object in Perl. </ol> <p> Hope to have helped ... <p> Christian Lemburg<br> Brainbench MVP for Perl<br> http://www.brainbench.com 142395 142395