>Almost! In order to look them up, you're going to have to assemble the entire >"word" before you can go looking - I can't image doing just part of them - >like a >character at a time - unless the characters were themselves a key to or >part of >the hierarchy to which I refer. Excuse my ignorance, don't have a clue to what you after actually after. But, the.... >I can't image doing just part of them - like a >character at a time caught my eye. Three or four years ago I wrote a routine that works as a quickfill for EFs. It scans an array (sorted), finds a match to the first x amount characters typed in (if one exist), and fills in the remaining text. The routine will scan a 10,000 elem array in about 2 ticks on my 68000 33mhz machine. It can be downloaded at http://members.aol.com/bracketpro (click on the FB link). My apologies if this is way off base... Most of the stuff on this list might as well be typed in Latin... I be stupid. Al Boyd ======================================================= McHurricane: Macintosh Storm Tracking Software http://members.aol.com/stormeye email: aboyd@... =======================================================