Yar, I went and had a squizzy at the latest media releases and they were of the modern all caps variant precluding periods, so I gleefully agree that the <n+m+o+p...> pages can be left aside :-) Thanks for your help. Steve Hudson Word Heretic, Sydney, Australia Tricky stuff with Word or words for you. Email: steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Products: http://www.geocities.com/word_heretic/products.html Spellbooks: 728 pages of dump left and dropping... -----Original Message----- From: Muzrimas, Diana Steve, I'm not a military person, just happen to work in a joint-services IT network support area. I can't tell from ADFP 103, as all abbreviations for Rank are presented in the form Group Captain - GPCAPT (Presented in Alex's post as Gp.Capt.). I presume ADFP103 abbreviations are likely to be presented with dots depending on author. So it's probably easiest for you to (as you already commented) "leave it up to the user to populate the list with their own". ************************************************** To post a message to austechwriter, send the message to austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe to austechwriter, send a message to austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "subscribe" in the Subject field. To unsubscribe, send a message to austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe" in the Subject field. To search the austechwriter archives, go to www.freelist.org/archives/austechwriter To contact the list administrator, send a message to austechwriter-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx **************************************************