Hi Darragh! Well, not sure if there aren't easier ways, but a VBA routine would certainly work. You could call the individual files in a for each command, or if the paths differ, create a while loop and at the end assign the next file name to a variable. The search and replace mechanism is a simple matter of if then else. I say simple, but I'd say it would probably take me more than half a day to compile the thing. So if you have both time and inclanation... Cheers, Robbie -----Original Message----- From: vicsireland-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:vicsireland-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Darragh Sent: Freitag, 21. Juli 2006 12:26 To: vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [vicsireland] searching through multable text files Hello again, I need to do a search and replace through multable text files recursively using Windows. Can someone suggest how this might be done? Thanks Darragh Website development and O/S technical support http://www.digitaldarragh.com