Stephen,
Honestly I intentionally check if a user is PUTM or not when referring msgs. You weren't I know but the msg itself was on the same day about 4hrs earlier:) Anyway it's Thread #608830
Your way would be very slow if data is a lot. I could say with visible=.t. at top you should be watching data is populating in Excel by the help of a fast typist :)
Cetin