The macros will run faster if they don't have to wait for Excel to open so importing a text file source can be a lot quicker in execution.

Debugging form opening can be problematic since you just get a message that it fails showing the line of code that called the form rather than the line of code in the initialize macro where the problem resides. I usually add breakpoints in that code so I can step through the form code and isolate the issue that way.

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Andrew Lockton
Chrysalis Design, Melbourne Australia