Naomi

Thanks for your response. However, I have tried to follow the logic but cannot.
Also I cannot directly test it using copy-paste since I still use VFP6 which does not support TRY CATCH statements. I hope you wont mind explaining this logic line-by-line. Also what I am actually interested in is not the WIDEST entry but whether or not a numeric cell will be displayed as ###### due to less column width.

Fred