Using Tex-Edit Plus' "search" command from the Tex-Edit Suite in its AppleScript dictionary, on this paragraph: "And, as Lantano made his way through the basement, among the cots, stepping over people, their meager stores, saying hello here, smiling to someone there, Nicholas thought, _My god, when he came through the entrance he looked like an old man, weathered, dried-out, but now, closer, Lantano appeared middle-aged; the aura of extreme age had been an illusion due to the scrawny quality of the man and the peculiar stiffness in the way he walked; it was as if he were delicate, feared an injury, a fall._" If I do this: tell application "Tex-Edit Plus" search paragraph 2 of document 1 looking for "My god, when he came through the entrance he looked like an old man, weathered, dried-out, but now, closer, Lantano appeared middle-aged; the aura of extreme age had been an illusion due to the scrawny quality of the man and the peculiar stiffness in the" end tell Tex-Edit selects the string within the paragraph and the script returns "true". However if I add one more word to that search string like so: tell application "Tex-Edit Plus" search paragraph 2 of document 1 looking for "My god, when he came through the entrance he looked like an old man, weathered, dried-out, but now, closer, Lantano appeared middle-aged; the aura of extreme age had been an illusion due to the scrawny quality of the man and the peculiar stiffness in the way" end tell I get an error: Tex-Edit Plus got an error: Can't make some data into the expected type with "search paragraph 2 of document 1 looking for......etc" highlighted. Anyone have any ideas what the problem is here? A bug? Thanks, RJay