Systematic... I'm flustered... I tried it again yesterday and it worked for me. Maybe the Equis Support team could help you sort it out. If you ever do get it going, please give me an update as to what it took... I'm interested, but stuck. support@equis.com (801) 265-9998

g stockman, I recently hooked up with MS tech support and discovered the source of the problem. I had been approaching this with local downloaded data when, in fact, the DataonDemand feature must used for this purpose. I expect that will solve the immediate problem. I have created a few test files that I will attempt to update with today's market results tonight. This actually leads to another question. I want to be able to update Excel files with locally stored MS data. So I am wondering if you are aware of any utility program that has been written for this purpose. Ideally, this program would: 1. Accept a (potentially long) list of ticker symbols (or perhaps paths that point to the MS data files); 2. Create a new Excel spreadsheet (or worksheet) for each ticker symbol; 3. Open the corresponding MS files, copy the data and paste it into those spreadsheets; and 4. Update those same spreadsheets when future data become available (not necessarily automatically). Do you know of any (Windows based) program that performs these functions?

g stockman, As you have suggested, the real question is how to read data from an MS file. This gets to the root of the issue: What is the format of an MS file? Is this public information or is it a proprietary format? If it is the former, then it is simply a matter of programming, otherwise.........