Dear CarlSorry, I misread your email first time through. If I carry out the search withIf I carry out the search with the helpkey, the result is exactly the same actually, too. I can search using the helpkey with or without space between the filemask and the helpstring in page layout view and it works. Neither works in draft view, and both give the result I reported earlier. 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