learned a new trick, works like a charm.. GetGenFilter does work on the 
drop-down filter, so..

1 getgenfilter to capture what they did
2 open a tcursor and setgenfilter on that
3 scan the filtered results into a temp table
4 export the temp table to excel
5 dropgenfilter on the tcursor

works well, works fast

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Steven Green
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