It could be cumbersome at times to maitain Excel Workbook's formatting/settings when heavy backend, front end work loads are done. At times (even frequently) workbooks were crashed. But I can't recall what the code or process was to avoid this happening due to the formatting. What I am clear is that before any data retrieval, processing took place in the workbook, I saved the Workbook's formatting/settings into an object. Once everything was completed, that object was called to restore. It was most probably one of the custom/user written classes.It could be cumbersome at times to maitain Exce