nice breakthrough Wayne; I couldn't get my mind around the multiple ranges;
performance on this solution sux, took my decent dev machine 1:09 to return the 151 rows, we might look at optimizing it , but i'm just happy to add a solution like that to my toolbox.
Lowell
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