Hah! Memory, what's that? (No, really. I had a stroke last year and some parts are missing...) About the only thing I need to be careful over is making sure I am using TrueType fonts. As for the help system, at least VP came with really good manuals. I have PDF versions for VP10, I believe. But I've not noticed other missing bits. I once was going to convert the .hlp file(s) to .chm to at least be able to open those manually, but I've gotten along just fine with the manuals if/when I've needed to look something up. For the simplistic example in the opening post, I would have loaded the database into MS Access, which then outputs my tagged text. I would have concatenated the address lines. If I needed to have my gaudy example, the address parts would have had character styles wrapped around them. The only time I would forgo Access is when I can get the database to either directly include the tags in its output or I'm sent a .csv/tabbed-delimited file, for which I'll run one or more Javascript routines against those files in my text editor to add the tags. (Which is what I do to convert VP's tagged text format to QXP's tagged text format.) Which is all doable for placing in ID. And is far easier than learning XML, much less FM! As well, images can be included in the tagged text files and placed relative, in-line, etc., to the text. Mike
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