Perfect - V7 Bookmarks did the trick and worked perfectly. Thanks for the quick reply vux777. Right on point.

What is the best way to export bookmarks from Opera 36 on Windows?

Seems like there is an extension but it doesn't support nested folders which I have plenty of.

It seems bizarre that there is no simple built in export function in Opera itself - I get the logic that they want to keep us....but seems like a really big flaw.