[majoreyeswater]

Thanks, but that's not it.

Once you put something in curly brackets, it retricts to that incident.

So {ancheste} would put ancheste as ******** but Manchester would still work.

I suppose I could simply put ancheste without branckets, but my problem there I some words i want to block, but if i block out bits of them inroder to get selective censorship, there are occasions where the same combination of letters exist in a non-offensive word that i might want.

Eg.

If someone entered... (apologies for any offence, simply for research purposes...)

b a s t a r d - what I'd like to see is b*****d

Now, if I censored 'astar', then if someone entered dastardly (for example) then that would appear as d*****dley, whihc is not what I want.

Again, any help appreciated.

Sorry, think I have posted this in the wrong forum, should have been in VB3... will repost, can someone delete this one for me. Apologies