Thanks Paul,
I have gone for the AddFileToArea and it has got me over the problem trying to OpenFile from a thread.
As this is a tabbed delimited file I am having to use the GetTabTextFromArea(row,column,area) command.
I am having to do this for each tabbed field and each row but it is working.
If you know of a way of returning the number of rows and the number of columns per row from an area I would appreciate some guidance. Tried a few different commands with no joy so at the moment I am hard coding these values.
Thanks again
Lee