Beta 15 preview 6 has been uploaded to the web site. http://www.truenorthsoftware.com/Realbasic/FormattedText.html With this preview the speed optimization are complete. There is probably more that I could do under the hood to enhance the speed, but I'll leave that for a future release. I am very happy with the results. I did some more work on supporting tabs which required some refactoring in some of the base classes to make support for underlines, marks, and strike throughs consistent. I you notice any funky behavior with basic editing, let me know. Let me know ASAP if you find a bug with this preview. Here's what is new with this preview... - Finished off optimizations for version 1.0 (6x speed increase). - Fixed a crash with the RTF parser where the header portion of the document was tripping over an internal marker. - Fixed a bug in the RTF parser where style attributes were not being handled correctly when a "\pard" command was encountered. - Refactored the code dealing with underlines, marks, and strike throughs so that they will apply to tabs and pictures. FTC Website: www.truenorthsoftware.com/Realbasic/FormattedText.html Set List Options (digest and vacation modes): www.freelists.org/list/ftcdev List Archive: www.freelists.org/archives/ftcdev Unsubscribe: Send email to ftcdev-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe" in the subject field.