Paul, Sorry for the delayed reply. I got the help I needed in the cross post forum and having managed to take that and reduce processing speed significantly enough to meet requirements. To be honest, I was helping a friend and I while I have managed to reduce the processing speed, I am still a bit muddled by how it all works. So much so that I don't know if I know how describe it in words.

I get your point about homework assignment. My skill (if it can be called that) is with Word VBA. Yes, I sometimes dabble with Excel and can cobble together something that works. But, I don't use it enough (and hope not to) to take on the learning curve of Power Query. At least not right now. Thank you.