>I had read something along the same lines which is why I'm lost for the solution. I know the older gentleman from the MS team at DevCon demoed this for me in their booth. He used StrConv() to encode standard text into the numeric entity reference and boy was it ever fast.
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>Thnaks for your reply.
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>--HM

Harvey,

Are you saying that he took a text string, converted to a numeric equivalent, processed it and then converted the result back to a text string? I would be very interested in this if that is the case. Do you have any more information on it?

Renoir