'|' is the pipe symbol. Using it usually involves 'piping' the output of one program to the input of another. To see it at work, open a Command Console, navigate to a folder with a lot of files and then type: Dir |more Press enter. At the end of one screenful you'll see ------MORE-------, pressenter again and you'll get the next screenful. More is an output control designed to let you see one screen at a time of multiscreen output. Greg Chapman http://www.mousetrax.com "Counting in binary is as easy as 01, 10, 11! With thinking this clear, is coding really a good idea?" > > Now all I need to know is what the name is for that curious > key on the upper > row of the keyboard, next to the 1/! key, with ¬ ` and ¦ on > it ... in the > absence of a better name I'm calling it *redundantkey* cos up > till now it's > been about as useful as the AltGr to me! ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, send an email to mso-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" (without the quotes) in the subject line. Or, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu. This will also allow you to change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles *************************************************************