Richard, it took me a few minutes to digest your function and I am truly impressed! I know it's not a lot of code (referring to the udfshowtext) but it works perfectly. This must be a hidden gem because I didn't see it on the kixtart.org udf page. For anyone concerned about asthetics, this is great! I will try to find time to digest the rest of you code, but I'm not there yet.

Kevin