As far as the \"\" is concerned, I have no idea what that is...I think that is something that has to do with the message board. If you look at my original post everywhere I have "" (2 double quotes), your reply has the \"\"...so I can see how that wouln't compile. The double quotes (with no space between them essentially gives me a blank cell) I know there are other ways to do this..but I stuck with what I knew worked...or thought worked...

When I add that code to my my code, all it said was "Error 0" and it had an ok button and that was it.

As posted, my code runs without errors, it just doesn't behave like I expected it to.

where I added the comment '*******...
that is where the code stops executing and I can't figure out why...there is no conditional statement there for it to kick out, I would expect it to just go from line to line, but it doesn't...I don't get it.