>Thank you very much Gregory.
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>The advantage of using the Clipboard is performance. The copy function dumps the range into a string in vfp, the cells are separated by tabs (Ascii 9) (not checked how rows are separated, but that's easy to find out). Was just hoping someone had already written a function that de-compiles that.

You should be able to get what you want using ALINES(). You'll have to call it once to put one line per array element, then once for each line to break up the individual items.

Tamar