Tom,

If it would work, I wouldn't post...

So, it doesn't work. The problem is - I think - that although it looks like my sql script exports an .xls file, Excel sees and recognizes it as an .xls file as soon as I open it in Excel. So, I can only update my destination file after I open my .xls source file in Excel. And for this last part, I would like to record a macro.