Oh, by the way, I did some Help-surfing before trying this, and discovered
that a string variable can hold a billion-plus characters, so that solved my
initial concern.

"Bill Manville" wrote:

How about creating a WHERE clause along the lines of:
PartNumber IN ('12345', '23456', ..... )
and using that in your query?

Code would be something like this:
Dim C As Range
Dim stWhere As String
For Each C In Range("PartNumbers").Cells
stWhere = stwhere & "'" & C.Value & "', "
Next
stWhere = " PartNumber IN (" & Left(stWhere, Len(stWhere)-2) & ")"

Bill Manville
MVP - Microsoft Excel, Oxford, England
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