>George,
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>Tell me about it!
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>I kept my comments to the subject of the thread but you can see what a nightmare this code has been. Even certain tables being opened, closed, opened again, opened each time thro' a loop, numbered work-area - the lot.
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>As for rewriting the code, funny you should say that but I'm overdue to rewrite the whole system, from scratch, and it's agreed that I shan't be converting/reworking any of the old code. My task here (which I've sussed now) was a fix to a bug in the current, used system.
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Terry,

I kind of noticed it in your code sample.:-)