Agreed. I was just guessing that since the posted code is unlikely to have triggered the issue, then this might have been what actually did it, but yes, just a guess.

Alan

>Alan,
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>Yes, parens inside string constants throw the paren matching off. But his original post didn't indicate that that was the source of the problem.
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>>Type Glenn's previous code, but put a closing paren inside the quotes in the Rat() function. Intellisense sometimes gets lost when a paren appears inside quotes.