>>>Sorry, I'm being dense. So you have a piece of text with 16,000-40,000 words. What are you doing with Mid() ?
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>>The number of words is mostly around 2000 to 4000. The 16-40 is about the size of the text such as 20k.
>>Mid() is used to locate a word in the search.
>This is what I don't understand......
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>Based on it, I then have to apply some parsing.

How does Mid() locate a word ? Can you post some code....