Hi Ed.

>> FWIW, this is a pretty good indication that I should not bother to reply at all; about a third of the time, I'll suggest a block of code off the top of my head, and frankly, I'm not in the habit of giving away my work product because someone I have no business relation with asks a question and I can provide a useful answer, but it isn't worth spending half an hour to test and debug code that ultimately they're going to charge their client for. I'm lucky to have the time to re-read and remove typos. So the solution is don't try to help. <<

I hope that you aren't serious about that. It would be a geat loss to this place if you really mean that!

>> Oh, well, time to find somewhere else to contribute. <<

You can always get to Compuserve MSDEVAPPS from the web < s >

Marcia