Great George :)
>I can get correct results now *|*

Thanks, Cetin. Glad to be of help.

BTW, and I hate to ask, have you had a chance to look at that code I posted (regarding VFP/Excel 2000) recently? If you've got a minute, I'd appreciate your looking at it and letting me know if I'm doing something incredibly stupid or if this is a problem with VFP. If you can't, that's fine too.

tia,