Hi Abigail and all,

I think our mails must 've crossed at the same time - I didn't get to read your reply before I posted mine.

Yes, I see your point in reading it line by line - and i've been testing on that right now. The problem is some sentences get split midway -they probably have a new line marker there. As a result I lose the info. Say for "Robert L. Stevenson" - Robert goes in the first line and L. Stevenson in the next. I could probably get around it by storing 3 lines (before, after and current) at any one time and ease the overhead.

Thanks for the suggestions and bearing with a dufus like me :-) J