This is a cross post as I am so far unable to find a solution on MrExcel I thought I would also post it here (while following cross posting best practice).http://www.mrexcel.com/forum/microso...not-exist.html Original post ---Hi all,Got a strange one here. Hopefully someone has seen it before and can help me out. I have some code that runs on startup of a database. It always errors saying that a link specification does not exist. Oddly if I end the code from the debug prompt and run it again it runs just fine. It only seems to fail when trying to execute from a startup form or an autoexec macro.Any ideas?