Nick

I agree with you about the purpose of this type of newsgroup, and would
normally post my queries to the group - I've always had solid, helpful
advice here and it's helped me a lot in doing what I need to do in
Excel. I remain very grateful to a large number of people here who've
supplied answers to my questions.There's certainly no slight intended
to everyone else here by my specifically looking to Bob; I apologise if
it seemed that way.

The request to Bob was made as a result of an offer made by him, and
because it may well require my supplying the workbook concerned, which
I obviously cannot do here. If I felt confident enough in my ability to
outline the problem clearly and concisely and not waste everyones time
in attempting to do so, I would have posted it a long time ago (as
opposed to leaving it gathering dust in my Work Stuff folder. :) )

If Bob agrees to help and has no objections to my doing otherwise, I'd
be happy to put up a problem & resolution post.

Steve