Stan,
Thank you for your explanations. I hadn't thought about the Match File filter's behavior.
I have one last question.
What if you added another setting on the filter to set the number of tickets that the filter 'looks through' ?
It would still work in the same way, but the number of tickets that it checks would be set by us.
For example we could set the number to 20 and it would start at the top and use the other settings to look for tickets over the next 20 tickets. Then go back up and move down the Package in the same way, moving down one ticket each time and testing the next 20. When finished it could run, or we could, your Remove Duplicates routine to clean up the file.
It could have a setting for All, so it would work exactly as it does now.
Would that ruin the premise of your filter?
I think it would basically be a series of Match File filters, moved down one ticket at a time and running over the space of our settings, then merged and cleaned up.
And more work for you of course, just in case you didn't have enough already.
This isn't a formal request or anything, just thinking and wondering if it would have any use.
Sorry, that's two questions
Regards,
Martin