I can't get the VBA string extract functions: left, right
and mid to work.  There is no error message.  The code
just stops running.

Most often this is due to a broken reference.  The following page gives
a detailed description of the problem and instructions for fixing it:

http://members.rogers.com/douglas.j.steele/AccessReferenceErrors.html

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Dirk Goldgar, MS Access MVP
www.datagnostics.com

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