Good day
 
Thanks to all for the help with this question. I've found that the
following works well with ~3,700 records in Access 2000 when executed
from VB.
 
"SELECT Id, Name FROM Data ORDER BY Len(Id) DESC, Id DESC"
 
It produces a recordset in descending order of the length of the ID
string. Secondarily, the ID strings are arranged in alpha-numeric
descending order.
 
Gordon