It works and the comments should help you follow it. It could use some streamlining and some mods to get more reuse out of sections that are similar, but I had already spent too much time on it (funny, none of my clients are paying me to create programs that solve Sudoku puzzles).

>Wow! That's a big head start. I'll take a more in depth look at this on Friday. Thanks for the info!
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>>Take a look at this code that I wrote awhile back when I first stumbled on Sudoku. This is absolutely not pretty code!! It was just a quickie one Sunday afternoon to have some fun. After solving the puzzle, I decided not to waste anymore time cleaning up this code (maybe one day, though). Let me emphasize once again - it works, but it ain't pretty and I did not spend time refactoring. :~)