Heh, my memory ain't completely trash but it's only spouting half truths. The places where Excel posts errors are with floating point math ops. That's not unusual at all AND, to standardize expected results across spreadsheet systems, the IEEE published spec 754 to describe how and in which direction to err. Check out: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;78113 Excel is not fully compliant with IEEE754 and the above document describes those instances where Excel is not in compliance. Greg Chapman http://www.mousetrax.com "Counting in binary is as easy as 01, 10, 11! With thinking this clear, is coding really a good idea?" ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, send an email to mso-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" (without the quotes) in the subject line. Or, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu. This will also allow you to change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles *************************************************************