Thanks, Ron. I really appreciate your efforts!

I was thinking to now create a function that returns a boolean on
success, and accepts "Optional AllowDupes As Boolean = True" as its arg
so the faster code runs unless the user wants to remove dupes in ColA.
Does that make sense?

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Garry

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