Hey Everybody, Thanks to a list member I sat down and wrote out how to take a list of files and with a few simple DOS commands turn them into one large text file. People who use McIntosh computers do not have DOS so ya'll can go ahead and stop reading. I just don't know how McIntosh does it. For the rest of you PC users (stands for Personal Computer and it doesn't matter what kind) here goes: Scenario: Let's pretend you have gone to the Horry Web Site and have copied and pasted a bunch of cemetary files. Let's say you want to pull out all of the cemetaries that have a Thompson in them. (Note you can also just get Thompson's by doing a site search on the cemetaries but if you are downloading all cemetaries because you want other surnames too this may help you). Put all your Cemetary files on C drive in a file that says Cemetary (or something less than 8 letters as DOS doesn't like folders with longer names). Next go to "Start" then "Programs" then the MSDOS prompt. Type the following (except where it says Thompson you would put the surname your interested in and at the end where it says Thomcem.txt..put what you want to name the file you are creating. copy C:\cemetary\Thompson\*.txt C:\cemetary\Thomcem.txt DOS isn't case sensitive I just added the caps but it could be all lower case as well. The first part tells the computer to go to C:\ file folder "Cemetary" and then to the next folder inside that "Thompson"..the *.txt tells it to take all those listings and make them into one big text file and call it Thomcem.txt and put it in the Cemetary folder. Also, on this command line (don't know if you can tell) there is a space before each capital "C". There are no other spaces. You can not copy and paste this line into the DOS prompt so alt/tab back to this letter or write it out. Next step is press enter. You will get a list of the files to be added as one big txt. type exit and press enter to get out of DOS If you go to the Cemetary folder you will see Thomcem.txt in your cemetary txt. I did this as I wrote this to make sure it worked and pulled 15 cemetaries out of a list of 93 and put them all in one big text file. The next step would be spiking the Thompsons out of that file. Please make a copy first as spiking cuts it completely out. The following is from an earlier letter I wrote the list: Spiking cuts what you are copying from the text and copies things to a > clipboard in the order you cut them without having to stop and paste each > thing separately. Then, when you paste it, it will come out like you took > it off. I do know before we got Windows 95 I was using spike so anyone who > has word (whatever version) might try this. BTW, you can't spike in email > or any of the other programs that I know of except WORD. > > To spike in WORD you highlight what you want then hold the Control key down > while clicking on the F3 key (this key is on the row on the top line of > your keyboard). > You know you did it right if that text you highlighted dissappears. You do > not have to paste now..just go to the next thing you want, highlight it, > press control and hit the F3 key again and it should dissappear. Do this > until you are ready to paste all that you have cut. When you are ready to > paste open up a new document, hold down the Control and Shift keys at the > same time and click F3 again. > . Let me know how it goes or where you get stuck and I will try to help. Hope this isn't to confusing! Have fun! Wanda