What a strange situation! I tried to copy and paste part (or all) of the list into Excel several more times, getting the same error message each time. I then opened up Microsoft Word and typed in a few words. I tried to "cut and paste" from what I had typed -- it wouldn't work. I could not get "copy and paste" to work either!
After scratching my head a bit, I closed down all of my open programs, rebooted my system and opened up everything again. This time, when I "copy and pasted" from the MC database listing into Excel -- it worked fine!
So LL, Matt and Jim, thank you. Matt, your help is especially appreciated since you pointed the way to creating a view without the "Name" field showing. That had been the stumbling block for me.
While I do very much appreciate all of your comments and suggestions, I still wonder if there is an easier and more powerful way to generate reports? I really would love to have an album listing "grouped" first by Artist, then by Genre. Is there any way to do this from within MC? A "flat file" approach is at least workable (and more than I had three hours ago), but given the sophistication of MC, I wonder if there is a more elegant approach? Is there a way to use Microsoft Access (or any other program) to access the MC database directly? Worst case, I guess I could copy and paste the entire MC database into an Excel spreadsheet, then import that into Access. Obviously the disadvantage is that I would have to go through the same steps each time I want to print a report.
Anyway, I really appreciate your help. Thank you.
Dave