Ah right, I see what you mean, Andrew, good thinking. And Paul, thanks for the formula too, although I tried it and it seems to do the opposite to what I need, hence it picks up the word inside the dialogue only, which might be useful in itself to me at some point and it's obviously solved the issue of separating dialogue from prose but the wrong way round. Is there anyway to invert the formula's product do you think? Looking at it makes my head hurt.