I posted this topic last week and cannot find it for some reason, but here is my question again.... I want to create a list, like a .dat file that a routine can read and do all of the work for me. It has to do with text. It would take me forever to use the FIND routine and manually do it, but if I had a routine in which I create all of the finds in one column and then the replace in another and have the routine automatically search Mtext, Text, Attrubutes, etc. that would be cool. Any ideas??? thanks