I accidentally posted this in the 2004 forum, but meant to post it here, sorry bout the double post, but I figured this was the better place for this. In Colorado Springs, the bldg dept has decided that we have to conform to some lighting standard that limits our wattage/sq. ft to a set amount depending on the type of room/building. So.... I've been assigned the task of coming up with a way to automate the process of counting the light fixtures. I'm sure this is fairly simple, but I'm drawing a blank. We put a fixture type by each light, i.e. "A", or "AA". Depending on the size of the job the range can be from "A" to "ZZ". I need to be able to limit the selection set based on the ending fixture type, filter out any lower case letters, and somehow get a list of each type and the number of occurances. Am I trying to get too much out of Acad or is this possible? If its possible, where do I start? The qselect command is a wonderful way to search for the fixture types and get counts, but on a large job that becomes very tedious. Thanks in advance for any answers or help!