Thanks to the two people who responded to my question yesterday everything is fine, and the merge went off slick as can be. Like I said since there is the insert+F2 command I never had any reason to go in the utilities menu, so that's why the merge function escaped my notice. So far I must say that 6.1 seems quite stable and very responsive. David Ferrin I believe that tomorrow's another day, and I'll probably screw that one up too. personal email address dpf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx