Thanks RB, that looks good, except for one itty-bitty problem.
In Excel 2003 it causes one of those usually-very-helpful
but sometimes-annoying error flags - in this case telling
me what I already know - that "The number in this cell is
formatted as text or is preceded by an apostrophe." Is
there anyway to programmatically prevent this, some
built-in error-checking. I tried recording the steps
involved in opening the message and selecting
"Ignore error" but nothing was recorded.