**NOTE: This is a repost... I thought I would try again. I replied to your
message with this same response earlier, but my newsreader is not showing it
inside this thread, rather, it shows it as a response (it contains the ""
in the subject, but it is located in the message tree as if it were starting
a new thread.

Really nice, Rick!

Thanks, but I still think there is a simpler underlying algorithm available
to solve this problem... I'll be looking again at this problem a little bit
later.

Rick Rothstein (MVP - Excel)