Thanks Cheryl. I had to fool with it a bit to see how you meant to do it, but it works beautifully. When I interpreted the red line below as "color the text," it made the eyeballing easy. (I made the db2.rtf all red.) > Open database1.rtf in any word-processing program (WordPad, > WORD, WP, whatever). Cursor to bottom. INSERT > database2.rtf. SAVE-AS COMBO.rtf. Highlight ALL of > database2.rtf. SAVE. Under TABLE, select SORT TEXT, by > Paragraph, Text. Now eyeball it -- Names that are in both > databases will form a color-white-color-white pattern. > Changes in the pattern will indicate something in one that > isn't in the other. Paul </HTML>

Glad it worked for you! It's sometimes difficult to explain simple things, though. (g) Cheryl [email protected] wrote: > Thanks Cheryl. I had to fool with it a bit to see how you meant to do it, > but it works beautifully. > > When I interpreted the red line below as "color the text," it made the > eyeballing easy. (I made the db2.rtf all red.) > > >>Open database1.rtf in any word-processing program (WordPad, >>WORD, WP, whatever). Cursor to bottom. INSERT >>database2.rtf. SAVE-AS COMBO.rtf. Highlight ALL of >>database2.rtf. SAVE. Under TABLE, select SORT TEXT, by >>Paragraph, Text. Now eyeball it -- Names that are in both >>databases will form a color-white-color-white pattern. >>Changes in the pattern will indicate something in one that >>isn't in the other. > > > Paul </HTML> > -- There should be no attachments on this message, unless I specifically mentioned them above.