Jim,

>The @ row, column is not precise enough. Any suggestions would help. I thank all replies, in advance. If not I might try writing this in VB.

@ supports decimal numbers:

@1.23, 2.34 say 'O'
@1.25, 2.35 say 'O' && will be 0.02 characters down and 0.01 characters to the left of the first