Thus spake Max Miles <maxmiles at cox.net>, circa 11/30/2006 3:22 AM: > What I mean is, (and without knowing much of anything about how the > code is written, how these things operate) Spotlight creates an > index. The index has information on unique words, perhaps even > strings of text within each file indexed. Couldn't you add a function > to this indexing feature, storing data about word location? I couldn't! :-> But it's a good wish list item. Why not suggest it to Apple at their feedback page? <http://www.apple.com/macosx/feedback/> peter