Karen Ponders......<insert Pondering music here> John is right, so where did the (firmly entrenched) idea I had that Quiz could not write wide subfiles come from? Am I remembering an old limitation? (I go back to PH6 ) Limit on wide disk files (learned the hard way) iirc is 256. Al Karman IT Consultant USFreightways Inc. 847.318.9164 *813