Dear Carl Same result as with the space. "cannot find item" on the status line.(I never knew you could use a wildcard search like that with XY. I just tried it with XY4 and it worked.)Best wishes Paul cld@xxxxxxxx wrote:Paul:When I command SE chapter.* |search|helpkey...There should be no space between the filemask and the search string. Try SE chapter.*|whatever|-- Carl Distefano cld@xxxxxxxx