John My earlier response was a genuine attempt to resolve your problem, I wasn't aware that ageism was mentioned. I have just had another run at trying to resolve your problem. I typed in 1980 into SpeedBMD and this is what I got in NotePad (file name is 80B11000.SCA). +INFO,[email protected],password,SEQUENCED,BIRTHS,cp437 #,9z,Allan Raymond,TEST,80B11000.SCA,14-Jul-2001,N,N #, +S,1980,Mar,TEST,14-Jul-2001 +PAGE,1000 Allan,Raymond,Raymond,Aberayron,11b,1000 I then changed the headings in NotePad to reflect change of year to 1890 in the second and fourth lines as below and saved the files as 90B11000.SCA. +INFO,[email protected],password,SEQUENCED,BIRTHS,cp437 #,9z,Allan Raymond,TEST,90B11000.SCA,14-Jul-2001,N,N #, +S,1890,Mar,TEST,14-Jul-2001 +PAGE,1000 Allan,Raymond,Raymond,Aberayron,11b,1000 I then returned to SpeedBMD selected file 90B11000.SCA and the headings were showing as year 1890. Hopefully QED. Allan Raymond [email protected] http://www.btinternet.com/~allan_raymond/Monarchies_of_Europe.htm FreeBMD - putting birth marriages and deaths on the Internet http://FreeBMD.rootsweb.com/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Slann" <[email protected]> To: "Allan Raymond" <[email protected]> Sent: 14 July 2001 17:50 Subject: Re: Header alteration difficulty Allan, The answer is yes, it was saved with the extension .sca . I may be old but not yet silly and my syndicate member is neither. The action we both took was word for word out of the TKB. So....? John After you did the amendments, did you remember to rename the file by using "Save As" with the extension .sca? Please see our Transcribers Knowledge Base (TKB) Web Page at : http://FreeBMD.RootsWeb.com/vol_faq.html#4 Allan Raymond ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Slann" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: 14 July 2001 10:53 Subject: Header alteration difficulty Hi Friends, One of my syndicate had a problem with correcting an error in the batch header details. I was sent a copy to see if I could solve the problem. The year had been entered as 1980 rather than 1890 and no amount of fiddling about in Notepad could either of us get an alteration that would stick. We could get a text document that reflected the changes but could not get a .sca document. Has anyone come across this before? In the end we got over the difficulty by re-entering the header details correctly as a new batch along with the first two lines of data, then saved and exited. This document was opened in Notepad as was the text document. All data bar the first two lines was cut and pasted from the text document to the new .sca document. This was saved and notepad closed down. Result was a new file with the correct header and all the data ready for uploading QED or have I missed a trick? Come on you experts tell me please!! John