Lee Hoffman observed: > ... I think it was in an upgrade to v5 or v6 that it was decided > to require the placeholder space... Since the HELP text was introduced sometime in Version 7, the problems may have been noticed in Version 6, but I would guess the change occurred when converting to Version 7. However I can find no mention of this in the Change Logs. But whenever this occurred, and whether the place holder "should" be optional or "should" be required, the program allows the user to enter it either way. Whichever way one looks at it, based on the observed behavior of the final version a user should always include the placeholder in empty parts to ensure that the output is as expected. Michael