PeteLP

One more note on GoFunNow. They've been amazingly responsive with Tech Support

Nice work on figuring that out. I just ran into this problem myself. I created a macro to read some INI files and provide a consolidated status report. (The INI files were created by my backup program, SyncBackSE, on a remote machine.) ME was unable to read those files because they were encoded as unicode>8bit. The solution I came up with was to download a unicode converter utility. Since it can run in batch mode, with command line parameters, I've been able to have my macro convert them on the fly, by running the conversion app from within the macro. The program I'm using converts text files from just about any encoding to any other, has a flexible array of command line parameters, versions for mac and windows (I'm using the win version), source file encoding detection, a very nice GUI, and the conversion is very quick. However, it's not free (about $49, with a free trial available before you buy). But the good news is, I was able to get it working instantly. It turns out, btw, that ME was able to read my INI files (and successfully search for text strings within them), after I converted them to 8 bit unicode. Here's the link for anyone that needs it: "Text Encode Converter" by GoFunNow