John,
Many thanks for the advice - I especially relate to the 'under pressure' bit!!
I have already managed to create DDE shares and transfer data between excel/excel, vb/Access and vb/excel but its in the setting up of the dde share for Lookout that I'm having all the trouble.
Do you have any examples of how to setup the DDE share for a Lookout client?
Many thanks again,
Mike O'Donnell