>>Also, I'm not sure what occurs, though, when the "clip" exceeds available memory, that's what I'd be concerned about with a large number of records and some older machines. Maybe someone can answer this?
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>It doesn't work when you exceed available ram. Pushing large amounts of data to Excel is a problem.

That's what I suspected...if that doesn't get you, then the Excel record limit may. And if that still doesn't get you, some of the Excel fuctions may be very slow with many records. It's just not really intended for large data work, similar to Access...