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Ben and Ole,

Thanks for that. Ben's suggestion looks very much like what I was thinking about, but my brain gave up. I'll work on it.

I'm already working with tagged text files that I create in Word using a macro in Word to add a header, convert the word paragraph styles to ID tags and save in text format: a one click operation. The only reason that I didn't go the whole hog and tag with the full table code was that the complexity of the final ID code made it extremely difficult to edit the document. I can cope with a short tag at the start of the line, but when I'm looking for a single item of data in among about 1k of code for each line of table my ageing grey matter begins to dissolve. It is always the backward steps that are the problem: ie, getting an edited ID document back into something that makes sense in a WP, without losing any formatting.

In a way you are right, Ole, and it was the way I would have gone if ID had not offered the scripting language. However, this makes ID scripting almost totally redundant, as there is very little that I cannot do with tagged text. Perhaps I should consider concentrating my efforts on bigger and better Word macros to parse the ID tagged text files and get them back into Word.

Or maybe now is the time to switch to XML.

Mike