Agreed!  Based on user notes like http://support.sas.com/kb/19/665.html I always presumed that it did do some kind of optimizing.  However, based on your post I tried to look it up and discovered that you are indeed correct .. as usual! p.s. I've just started reading your book and, while I'm only at the beginning, I already like what I see! ... View more

Thanks, Tom!! It does work across multiple pages, and parses everything nicely. Once I transpose the account file and join it to the company file, it will be lined up perfectly for my purposes. I greatly appreciate all of the help! ... View more