Hi Mark, I tried this letter changing thing in Word 98, and hey with macro recording one can do this even in Word 98! Can you believe that? So I have to give a more complex example, which makes Nisus so special. Once I had to do a TV gameshow job in which I wrote hundreds of questions each with 6 multiple answers like this: What is the best text processor? Nisus Writer* Word Star Office Word Perfect BBEdit Simple Text When all these questions were written some of the production staff had the idea to arrange the answers such that they come on the TV screen in order from the shortest to the longest answer: What is the best text processor? BBEdit Star Office Simple Text Word Perfect Nisus Writer* I had to rearrange them! All! Drag and drop hundreds no thousands of answers? This would have meaned hours of dragging and dropping! No way! Even without the brilliant macros some of the folks here have written (with which I could do this in one rush!!!) it would have been possible because of Nisus writer's 10 clipboards. I could have copied each of those 6 answers into clipboards 1 to 6 and then paste them all back. A process of maybe 5 seconds. Multiply with somehundred questions, maybe an hour hiting some short cuts. But I had these macros from those friendly geniuses out there... Know what? If Nisus Writer were a DOS text processor, I even would change the platform and quit my Mac! Honest! Best Matze
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