Conrad Carlberg wrote...
The point that *I* don't see is why you're all beating up on ASokolik. Has
it not occurred to you that he or she might be trying to develop some
further expertise in VBA? Or are you the only people allowed to know what
you're doing? This sort of thing is why public newsgroups are so damned
ugly.

Fine.

Reinventing the wheel is wonderful!

Slow, error-prone VBA is much better than relatively proven built-in
functions because there'd be so many mistakes from which to learn!

Learning how to do X is far more important than learning which X to do
or not!