Though not quite standard, I do place my direct line in the first place of the children and then put all the others in order. That way it is easy for me to go through the file and keep my direct line straight. I am not advocating this for everyone, but I have found it very useful and it substantially decreases my frustration at times. Bill > Speaking of Children being out of order, I was working on a file that > had lots of Match/Merge done on it and noted that there were quite a > few families with the children out of order. So I wanted to find a > systematic way to go through the entire file and check for all the > "out-of-order" families.