Cody, I have this workflow that will create multiple files over time as I get new pictures of the science fair. Thus, I'll have different files to process each time, so the first syntax you have would be what I would need. That is, I'll want to do this for names.txt, names2.txt, etc. Another feature that would help, since this starts as canned html with links (from iPhoto on the mac) would be to save the original names.txt file as a backup names.bak and have the modified file take the original name, names.txt. Then, no links would be broken in the html. With these changes, I'd have all I need. Thanks for your help. --cheers, Gordon

In reply to Re: How to replace multiple items with corresponding items from a database by gordons
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