I used Oracle SQLPLUS scripting to develop an output document that has the fields all lined up nicely. I tried putting commas at the end of each field, and it worked however, extraneous commas where put here and there which will not work. My goal is to create a delineated document for the user just to put into Excel easily. My question is does anyone know of a text editor that can do something like me putting in a column number and a replace with a comma? I hope this makes sense. Thanks, Eileen La Fond Phone (206) 386-0011 e.mail Eileen.LaFond@xxxxxxxxxxx __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind