Thanks for your help
Travis

The "Save As" option of the CommonDialog control just lets your app
retrieve a filename from the user.  It's up to your code to decide whether
or not to save the file to that filename.  

After the CommonDialog returns a filename, check to see if the file already
exists.  If it does, inform the user and don't overwrite.

Hope this helps,

Kerry Moorman

This will prompt the user if the file already exists

or :-
        filenum=freefile
        on error goto nofile
test if the file is present - if its not an error will be generated
        open filename for input as #filenum
        close #filenum
nofilepresent:
        'what everelse from here on

        exit sub
nofile:
        if err=53 then goto nofilepresent

Hope this helps Chris