Jason,

Thanks for the extended advise. I'll stop and work on the bits, one at a time to learn more about what I have. If I go with the technique of deleting the activities as I paste them, the deletion will be from a copy of the source file, not the file itself. But, I like the idea of moving the start and end pointers, that will work much better and cutdown on file reads and writes which are time-consuming, relatively speaking.

First, I believe that I'll sleep on this overnight.

Thanks,

Ron