Richmond. Say you have a field 1 with text in it. on mouseUp select after char 12 of fld 1 put the number of words of char 1 to (word 2 of the selectedChunk)of fld 1 into numWords select before word numWords of fld 1 -- or after end mouseUp -- Sent from: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Revolution-User-f278306.html