I am doing a great deal of converting of ascii text of all sorts to html format. Since this is a bare-bones type of operation I simply load the material into my word-processor (WP 5.1 for DOS), clean it up, locate paragraph breaks, replace paragraph breaks with a <p> at the beginning of each paragraph, attach a standard <head>...<//head>, <title>...</title>, <body> set of commands to the top (I forgot the very first one, <html>), followed by the text. At the end of the file is another standard set of commands to toggle body and html off </body>, </html>, and that's it. Takes about two minutes to convert a piece of practically any length. All of this can be done with macros. Just don't put in extra /'s as I did in the //head above. I can't correct in this mail utility. I am sure there are fancy conversion programs out there, but this works well for me. Ingrid Shafer ([log in to unmask] and [log in to unmask]) http://astro.temple.edu/~arcc