Comma delimited Lists

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Take the post about finding columns and incorporate it with this post from a college of mine.
http://www.artfulsoftware.com/infotree/tip.php?id=753

Now you're off and running turning lists to comma lists, in corporate that with the list table function I posted sometime back, and you can go backwards and forwards!

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