Reply to note from "Paul Breeze"Mon, 30 Dec 2019 15:29:24 +0000 Paul: > I don't know if you can help as this concerns Robert's OED lookup > routine, but I have a (very) small issue. If I use a keyboard > shortcut to lookup a word (after placing the cursor on the word) > and OED has not been started, the OED routine does, indeed, start > the program but it does not insert the word and instead leaves a > stray "GoXY" dos window open. I'm taking a stab in the dark, but you might try this: In your OED program folder, locate the file OED2.DAT and copy it to the root directory of C:. Any other valid drive should work, too, but C: will be fastest because it's searched first. The key is to locate OED2.DAT in a *root* directory. -- Carl Distefano cld@xxxxxxxxxx