>thanks, daly, but shucks; there goes one of my reasons to hail word 5.1a >for the mac as the best word processor ever (but only one of many). > >does this work for excel? would solve the original problem. Yep, works fine in Excel, and also in PowerPoint. (Word 5.1a still was a lot simpler to use than anything since, though. You don't need an excuse to hang on to it!) Daly ----------------------