Hi David,

Thanks for the message - as per Toms suggestion (thanks!), I ended up
dumping the data to a worksheet and doing a data sort on it before
reading it back in.

Cheers,
Al


"David Fixemer" wrote in message ...
Al,

I've read all of Tom's and your comments and it
appears you two either have it worked out, or will get it
worked out. That is greate considering I didn't even
understand the problem. Overnight (Drive Home) I
considered your problem a little more. Your reply simply
reinforced my conculsions. My previous post had the
elements already in order. If it actually looked like
this:

| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4
-+------------+------------+------------+------------
1| Entry1 | Entry11 | Entry10 | Entry4
-+------------+------------+------------+------------
2| Entry5 | Entry3 | Entry2 | Entry8
-+------------+------------+------------+------------
3| Entry9 | Entry7 | Entry6 | Entry12


Then you would desire a list like one of the following,
depending on weather you sort by row or column first?

Entry1 Entry1
Entry4 Entry5
Entry10 Entry9
Entry11 -------
------- Entry3
Entry2 Entry7
Entry3 Entry11
Entry5 -------
Entry8 Entry2
------- Entry6
Entry6 Entry10
Entry7 -------
Entry9 Entry4
Entry12 Entry8
Entry12