>Hi Nigel ---
>
>Nice new picture. Tell Evan to give you your beard back!
>
>Anyway, Excel will allow 65536 rows. The 16384 row restriction has soemthing to do with the COPY TO ... TYPE XLS command. A solution might be to COPY TO TYPE DELI and import it into Excel.
>

Thanks for the info John, I've just spent the past few days on this problem and put it away! The end-user prefers a text file anyway. My favorite solution to a problem!