I use a keywords search program that tells me which emails contains keywords I am interested in. Names, places, etc. I use 30 keywords in my searches. Its entirely free if anyone want to try it. I can email it to you. It will also search an entire folder for those files that contain your keywords. For emails, you should copy them all into one text file then do the search on that. It will display which line in the file each keyword is at. Be happy to help you with it if need be. It works on a PC but don't think it will on a MAC. Patrick Traynor. tray@lanset.com