Michael Norman wrote:All I have to do is read them quickly in NoteTab to clean them up. Thanks, Flash.Why not use this U2 routine?{del26} Remove first Ascii-26 within a file (in order to read past it) If there might be more than one, you'd have to run it a couple of times, but I'd think that would still be quicker.-- Patricia M. Godfrey PriscaMG@xxxxxxxx