I completely agree that the target setting, whip cracking, work type environment is not appropriate for this project. I also understand that asking our hardworking resources to do more things is also not useful. My suggestion is as follows: if one of the syndicate leaders, one day, happens to notice that a particular quarter for a particular event has been completed that they send an email saying this to the list. Nothing formal, no records kept or graphs, just a little 'hey, just noticed we'd finished this'. That way I'm not waiting for the eternity when the entire indices are transcribed, double typed and completely accurate, but I am getting a good feeling that progress is being made. And for me there's nothing like knowing that such and such has been done, finito, the end, to get that feeling. (and believe me, I understand about the 100% on the graphs being a probability) My two cents. Shirley