Thanks, I made the change. What do you think of Carl's suggestion to use Doc Info? Do you use it?There's a small error in FileInfo for use with NB: Remove the func DX (or replace with<>"V4.1">DX ). After you do that, something like this works perfectly to return last SAve date (per your original suggestion " "): XPLeNCODE v2.0 b-gin [UNTITLED] {<}SX50,{<}VA$FP{>}{>}[JM_]2.FileInfo[Q2_]{<}SX50,{<}VA@50 5{ {062}}{>}{<}PR@50{>}{<}EX{>} -nd XPLeNCODE ----------------------------- Robert Holmgren holmgren@xxxxxxxx ----------------------------- Harry Binswanger hb@xxxxxxxx