I found that this would find a "hit" SE /"[3][X]2.HIDE[W][CRLF]/where the stuff in square brackets are wildcards, but this returned "Cannot find item":CI /"[3][X]2.HIDE[W][CRLF]/xxx[CRLF]/ Nor does this, which has the same wildcards for the find and the replace: CI /"[3][X]2.HIDE[W][CRLF]/"[3][X]xxx[W][CRLF]/The Command Reference Guide says that wildcards work the same in SE and CI, but apparently not.Any thoughts? Harry Binswanger hb@xxxxxxxx