What would be the fastest way, of splitting a large text document into separate doc, via a common identifier "From ???@???" This From ???@???, is at the top of every email document, inside this large single text file. this file contains about 15,000 emails. Thanks Regards - Richard -- I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered! My life is my own - No. 6