on 1/20/03 9:28 AM, mckernon at mckernon@... wrote: [on VBA vs FB] > Instead of C$=A$ + B$ you use C$=A$ & B$, and instead of DO UNTIL, you > say DO LOOP UNTIL. Can't you use either '&' or '+' in string concatenation? I know you can do so in Excel formulae, and I thought it was also the case in VBA. (I prefer the ampersand, as it immediately tells me I was working with strings when I wrote the code eight months ago.) But I could be wrong. It's happened a couple of times. Mark Lincoln