Hey, I just hit the button here... that must have been the quickest response I ever got in any forum...
Just to clarify. When I use the “exclude all files” in the second tab I don’t have to use the “ignore *” and ”.*“ in the third tab. I then would only add a copy command for the documents folder in the third tab followed by several “ignore XYZ folder,” listing all the folders within the document folder that I want to be excluded from being copied. Did I get that right?