Hopefully, this is an easy question for you guys.I want to remove all characters in a string after the occurrence of a certain character, lets say ":", and including that character. I looked at the StringLeft and StringContainsChars functions. To have these two functions work together, the StringContainsChars would need to return the index where the character was found rather than just a Boolean True or false. Are there more appropriate functions or methods to accomplish this simple task. For instance I want to transform the string "Menu:only available in To DVD mode" to "Menu" Don Marang __________ Visit and contribute to The JAWS Script Repository http://jawsscripts.com View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/jawsscripts