You only have to create the table once. However, my other reply should do what you need.

>I understood that. My point was that creating an error table was more overhead than simply adding another method to handle the error in the first place. :)
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>It seems strange that this function doesn't already exist. Maybe I should add it to the wish list...
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>Thanks,
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>Michelle
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>>If you use my code to create your error table, then you could write our function to SEEK the error number and return the message.