It is often said that Cristoforo Colombo (aka Christopher Colombus, aka Christophe Colomb, aka etc.) in 1492, discovered America, whereas it is never mentioned that, no more than a couple of months ago, Ken Shmidheiser posted in this mailing list a nice snippet of code called Word Indexer. I wonder why. It is totally unfair because no list residents were killed in drove after his contribution to the world. Whatever. Word Indexer takes a text file for input and produces a sorted list of the unique words it contains. I did find immediately a good use for that tool: I have something like 17 manuals to handle for FB as my tired Help menu would say. Parsing the French Ref Manual, which proudly sports 694 pages, was done in 4 seconds on my G4/400 Mac OS 9, giving a list of 7221 words. It was a big help to spot a few recalcitrant typos that would have been hard to find otherwise and my US version of Nisus Writer came unfortunately with no French spell checker attached. I have also used it with more narrative long texts to squash duplicates. After a few editing, the texts became more pleasant to read, or less boring if you prefer. Since I will have to check and possibly correct a dozen of electronic books in the near future, I have enhanced Word Indexer a little bit. It's no big deal, but some might find the following useful: - You can skip now the counting of occurrences - You can produce the list of words in uppercase, lowercase or left them unchanged. - The list can be sorted according to international rules (it is much slower on long texts, for example the parsing of the French Ref Manual takes 27 seconds with that (pretty useful) option on) - I have added an autosave option. No more Save dialog, the resulting file is named with the original filename and an .idx suffix appended. - The app can now store and retrieve its preference settings. - The Drag & Drop feature has been implemented (FinderInfo and Drag & Drop Manager) - I have rearranged the source code to my liking. You can download the source code at: <http://euro.futurebasic.com/download/WordIndexer.sit.hqx> [not tested in OS X] Alain