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Many thanks, John. I may well take you up on your offer. I'm on vacation now, but will be home next week. I think I can get access to Weinpert's book on ME, but if that doesn't do it for me, I'll be in touch.

Just discovered Macro Express and it looks like it will be the answer to my dreams. Since I was forced to stop using the DOS version of WordPerfect 4.2 (when would that have been?) I have never used a macro. WP4.2 had the most easy, intuitive way to capture keystrokes. I guess Word has macros, but it seemed that you had to be a programmer to use them. I have a trial copy of Macro Express Pro and I am determined to learn to use it and buy it. My immediate need is to maniputlate Word documents, then to copy things from Word and paste them into ProCite, a database program. I actually was able, after much trial and error, to create a macro in MEPro that would make one such cut and paste operation, but I cant figure out how to start the macro again so that it will continue to operate in a loop. WP4.2 called this "concatenating macros" and it was easy as pie. Another problem I had was that I couldn't figure out how to stop recording the macro. It seemed to take over my machine and my mouse was all over the place, apparently trying to execute the macro. I finally had to go to Explorer and delete the macro.

I have downloaded the pdf of the manual, and if I can't get personal help, I suppose I will eventually figure out how to make MEPro work. But being a relatively old dog, I would love to be able to cut to the chase and have someone sit down with me and walk me through a simple capture process. I can't imagine it would take more than an hour and I will pay what is needed. I'm in Oak Park, Illinois, but will bring my laptop to anywhere in the Chicago area where I could get such a one-on-one tutorial.

Thanks, Bob