Hi Ken and listers I've been following this thread with interest. The Australian Oxford Dictionary gives: 1. (a) an order (especially from abroad) for goods. (b) an official requisition for stores. 2. (Aust. hist.) a document recording the names of a party of convicts and transferring a property in these convicts to the relevant governor. 3. an indented line. 4. indentation. 5. an indenture. - DERIVATIVES indented adj. indentor n. - ORIGIN Middle English via Anglo-French endenter from Anglo-Latin indentare (as in-2 , Latin dens dentis ‘tooth’) I thought that it was called an indent because the information was recorded on an indented document: at the first indent, the number; at the second indent, the name; at the third indent, where tried etc. http://www.archives.tas.gov.au/images/con14-2_renwick_pp1c.jpg Regards