"Peter Darley" <pdarley at kinesis-cem.com> writes: > Further examination shows that any non-numeric value==0, so I > guess I'll cook up an IsNumber() function See my previous posting. It's not the number-ness that's your issue here, it's the non assignment-ness of your code. -- Michael R. Wolf All mammals learn by playing! MichaelRWolf at att.net