I discovered that last night, Lesley; and investigating their information pages, discovered that they have not altered them to reflect this change. I agree with you that it is indeed a great pity; but at least having the ? is better than losing it altogether. On that topic, one of the things which I hate about google, is that it does not allow any wildcard character in its search query terms. grrrr..... Ray ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lesley Uebel" <[email protected]> > Hi all, > > Recently the NSW BDMs decided that the use of the wildcard * was too > much for their servers and was causing an overload. > > They still allow the wildcard ? in place of one character, but not the * > in place of many characters. > > Such a shame