>Thank you so much for your time but I cannot use any scripting.
Tracy, now that someone asked a question about it, I remembered (not a great trick! <g>) that Craig Boyd has a RegExp.DLL that allows you to use Regular Expressions without using scripting, and if I remember correctly, he added some extra functionality not present in vb. I know you have your solution already, but maybe it can help in the future.
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