Thanks for taking the time to reply even in the midst of a busy
schedule--I always appreciate your thoughts and suggestions.

I was wondering about the schedule part, as well . . . the ozgrid
page I mentioned seemed to say that closing would not kill the
schedule, but that may be from earlier versions of Excel, so I'm
still not sure.

That's a good point about the dTime . . . it didn't occur to me
that the value would change for the closing. I'll correct that and
see if that works. If it does, I'll let you know.