I have two methods, one for opening a ADOConnections, one for closing.
Here i'll call them OpenADO() and closeADO().

Both have Byref ADO Connection as ADODB.COnnection, and ByRef ADOCommand as ADODB.COmmand in their arguments.
Also, both have byref OPTIONAL recordset as ADODB.RECordset, since i won't always be needing to open and close recordsets when i'm running my SQL commands.

The OpenADO runs fine, whether or not i include the recordset in the argument.

Close ADO has a line of code 'RecordSet.Close', which of course works fine if i include the argument. If I do not include the optional argument, the line returns an error 'object not set'. I figured maybe the code isn't recognizing the optional argument correctly, so i changed it to:
'If Not IsMissing(RecordSet) Then RecordSet.Close'. This once again runs fine if the argument is included, BUT i'm still getting the same error when I leave out the record set argument. Anyone have any clue why? I have looked all over, and found no reason why this shouldn't work, or even why the line of code is being read when the conditional is not met?

Thanks,
Viggy