>If I had a nickel for each time I did the same thing, I would have been able to retire years ago.

now there's an idea, lets get sponsorship for our cockups. We'd all be fabulously rich! It certainly worked for Bill Gates!
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>>> Hope I haven't wasted too many neurons! <<
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>Not at all. I'm glad you got everything working. That is the important thing.

indeed - and after all that, guess what - I've managed to find out how to do it by removing the grid altogether and replacing it with my saved class which means it takes 4 lines of code instead of 50 and you get guaranteed identical performance in the query version as the original - neat!


Harry