Hi: You added a new question in the middle of a 2 year old posting. I almost did not find it. Please start a new post and just put a link to the old post. The same answer to the original question is the answer to your question. You are not using the multiple ampersands correctly and need to experiment with macro variable resolution in order to "stop" resolution at &b1, you need to distinguish where &b1 ends, by terminating the macro variable reference with a . (period or dot). Please read the macro documentation and some of the many papers on macro variable resolution. cynthia
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