Hi Cetin, Jim

>>I think you misunderstood me. I say it would also work w/o parentheses and ....
is there something else that I don't know ? <<

I obviously stumbled over my own long feet! Of course it works either way. I had been testing around the problem with several ways of macro-substitution and come to the belief, it would only work in a substituted way. (lack of sleep???)<g>

regards
Eugen