Isn't it more than a -little- difficult to find just what you want in that Megabyte sized help (*.HLP) file? Well see what I found that the Quick "C" cats know about and use... HELPMAKE.EXE. A Microsoft help file utility that -extracts- *.HLP files (like VBDPSS.HLP) to unformatted text files you can cut and paste -or- to formatted files that you can -encode- again. By the finder and batch file maker: John De Palma