I am transcribing 1931 Births where unnamed children are entered as (Male) or (Female) whereas previously they were entered as Male or Female. When prompted I added (Male) and (Female) to my Forename Picklist and they now appear on my picklist with the brackets included. So far, so good. Each time now that I encounter (Male) or (Female), the picklist asks me afresh if I want to add the name to the picklist even though it is already there and I have just used autocompletion. Am I correct in thinking that this malfunction is because of the brackets in the "name"? Is it possible to do a minor tweak to WinBMD in the next update to correct this? Michael