At 11:07 AM -0400 8/29/07, Bill Steele wrote: >select item onePath >class of selection -->"property" Finder does not know that you want it to evaluate "get selection" before returning the result's class. It thinks that you want the class of "selection", which is a property (of the application.) I would try: class of (get selection) It's like asking the color of: "a green house". This is black (13 black characters.) Only the implied concept is green. Emmanuel