Bill,

I am glad you tracked down the problem so quickly. I can't count the
number of hours I've spent trying to debug code that had no problems
but bad data.

Feel free to ask questions any time!

_Merrick

> Merrick
>
> Pertaining to the "MC" problem. Your 'Hmmm' response was well placed.
> I rekeyed the entry and it too correctly produced "MC". I went back
to
> my original,
> but it continued to produce "M". To shorten this story, the problem
was
> that "Christopher"
> was actually " Christopher" in the original. So with the two
blanks,
> it was actually correct.
>
> I appreciate the time you took in helping me.
>
> So now it's back in the Water.
>
> Bill