but your words did not hurt. Your message seemed to
be hastily written. It seemed to indicate that you might be
unwilling to read the documentation included with VBA. You would
not be alone in that. Many people want a special manual written
just for them. My mother wanted  me to write an MS Word manual like
that.

How we ask questions is as important as how we answer them. If
you provide a question with short terse phrases absent of those
visual cues I mentioned in my last message, then you may be
implying that you can not be bothered to follow the niceties of
civilized society and that you are equally willing to receive
terse replies where the answer is correct, but few of the niceties
of polite society are followed.

If, instead, you would like a nice reply which is easily
understood and in which the question is answered with all the
visual cues human readers expect, like correct spelling, good
sentence structure, proper punctuation and editing which deletes
irrelevant sections of a post, then you should reciprocate when
asking a question.

My comments were meant to motivate you and other readers to
find solutions through reading and experimentation rather than by
sending a message to this list. Use this list when those sources
fail. I subscribe to a number of programming mailing lists and the
number of people who write posts asking if something works
astounds me. Why not just try it to find out if it works?

No one wants to see the number of messages on this list
decrease, but I have found, repeatedly, that as people learn to
read the documentation, first, and ask questions only after
experimentation more questions get asked on the list, not less.
The goals of this list do not only include answering questions.
They also include making us better programmers.

I am relatively new to this list, having been asked to do a
couple of trivial Excel applications for a web client. If I have
admonished you unfairly or have expressed the goals of this list
poorly, please let me know.