RobiNew, thank you again for good words about my modest help! Greg, thank you for sharing your precious knowledge! Regarding your comments: 1) I thought that 'as Range' was optional when delcaring a range (from now on I will remember that a range MUST be explicitely declared); 2) I fully agree that exiting the sub leaves the final commands unexecuted. Now it's clear why you keep using lbl_exit. Thank you for one more lesson!