Hi, as most of you know I've just released Vols. 1 & 2 of Paine's Biography on diskette. The text has been entered in WordPerfect 5.1 format. (If someone wants DOS format I use the export feature of WP.) I have a question about these formats. When I load in the complete 900+ pages in WP 5.1 format and do a scan from top to bottom of all the pages, it takes my laptop about 10 minutes. I have not tried it in straight DOS format nor have I used an indexing program on the text. Taylor Roberts has suggested that I might consider placing each of the chapters in a separate file. In this manner the user could load as many or as few as desired and search only that portion of the text. This would cut down on the search time. The disadvantage is that there would be a large number of files and if the complete document were wanted it would have to be expanded through a "master document" file. This large number of files could be cumbersome I believe. Would you let me know how you work with files this large and/or your suggestions as to how to divide up this text. I would like to put something out that is of benefit to everyone. Thanks Jerry O'Brien