09-10-2010
bartus
Thank you very much! It works like a charm.
One pretty quick question, how can I modify the code if I would like to replace the new IDs with consecutive numbers let say 1,2,3,4, etc or NewID1, NewID2, NedID3, etc..
Thanks once again!
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