Hi Jim

Thanks for the suggestion. I tried this out by there was no noticeable
decrease in execution time.

I cannot exactly understand why this takes so long but I guess it is
all the calculations that are required when I ressurect my dormant
formulaes - there are 14560 of them!

However it should only need to calculate them once which is after the
search and replace as I have calculation turned off.

Oh well - I might have to rewrite my whole approach.

Chrisso