Hi Guys, I would love to work on this however i have NFI howto and no where near enough time to sit down and look into this in depth. What i have done in past jobs is created reports on whats happening at this point in time in our offices for management to see the pretty colours and be happy. What i would like to do. I have a spread sheet that i send out with all our current information and status's in it. I have a worksheet called Data$ with Hostnames of devices i want to check. I have a worksheet called Live Status which i want the status's inserted into. Data$ is a shared worksheet as range A1:A25 are hostnames C1:C20 are misc other data Is there a way to run the ping or somesuch command from excel and return these results to the Live Status sheet? Like i said, no biggy but if anyone has an idea it would be most appreciated. Jammy