That works good! thank you, John Balgenorth On Aug 24, 2014, at 8:21 AM, Colin Holgate <coiin at verizon.net> wrote: > on mouseUp > put fld 1 into f1 > put fld 2 into f2 > put offset(f1,f2) into offamount > if offamount = the number of chars in f2 - the number of chars in f1 + 1 then > put char 1 to offamount - 1 of f2 into fld 2 > end if > end mouseUp