Dear cfunky,

I see you just joined. This is a great forum and I hope you enjoy it. I have met some utterly great folks here, who will go out of their way considerably to help anyone who is 'stuck' with a concept, problematic code, or advanced worksheet functions/formula construction that quite oft boggle me.

That said, most 'answerers' are coders who are hard working folks trying to make an honest living, and then find a bit of time to help others, as well as hopefully pick up a trick or two here or there.

Thus, when one submits an issue to resolve, one is asking for free help, wherein the answerer will receive at most, a thank-you.

As such, there is a reasonable expectation for the 'questioner' to 'play fair' and not take advantage of folks. There is a reasonable expectation of genuineness.

You posted at: ExcelForum

After being advised about cross-posting, you wrote, "I didn't realize that posting in more than one location was a bad thing. I thought it would help my chances of getting help. I now understand why this is not a good thing and I will only post at one location in the future. Thank you for the understanding."

reference the cross-post at MrExcel

...where you responded, "Sorry I must have missed that on the posting rules."

I would echo Jeff at MrExcel somewhat in stating that while cross-posting is not against the rules, there is a reasonable expectation that you will give the first answerers a fair shot at providing a solution first, and then provide links at both ends (that is, in the new thread at another site, as well as in the original thread/site), so that answerers are not duplicating efforts and wasting their time.

Rather than stick by what you stated in the other two threads, you are now cross-posting here, again with no advisement(s) or link(s), which I find disingenuous at the minimum.

Now I am just a member, and you are not obliged to follow this advice, but I would strongly urge you read about cross-posting thoroughly (as I think Ken Puls explains it awfully nicely) as well as the forum rules.

Mark