Like many of you, I have been frustrated by the challenge in searching for something I know is in the TWL archives. This morning, after beating my head against my computer screen looking for a "how-to" I know I'd read some months ago, I finally decided to do something about it. It actually proved quite easy. I went into the archives and opened August 2000, organized it by subject, and printed the index out, thinking to do this for each month and file them all in a binder. However, since that one typical month generated 21/21 pages, that approach was clearly a non-starter. Instead, I did the same thing for each archived month copying each of the indexes to a folder on my hard disk. That sounds much more onerous than it is, for it probably took only 15 minutes or so to do all of them. I figured I'd have use <My Computer> of <Windows Explorer> to search month by month, but it would still be easier and faster than doing it on-line. The files are saved in html format, so when you find what you want, or, more likely are diverted by something else that's interesting, a click on the original posting brings it up in whichever browser you use. Then I realized that a search engine that would scan through all the indexes and find specific text for me would be even quicker and a lot more elegant. And, of course, <Windows Explorer> does just that. EUREKA! Open Explorer and click on Tools, Find, Files or Folders, and type in the text you're looking for. It's almost instantaneous when directed to the folder containing the saved TWL files. Click on any of the folders it's found and you're in business. Simple and fast. A far more powerful option appeared when one of the files I came across was a May 1999 post by John Ague suggesting the use of AltaVista Discovery as a text search engine. I went to discovery.altavista.com and downloaded the program which, for our purposes, is very complex. It indexes all the files and web sites you direct it to follow and will do so routinely whenever you set its schedule. The first time takes quite a while. Since I've only been playing with it for an hour, I am not ready to recommend it, but it seems to have a lot of potential not only for this purpose bit for a lot of other things I need to do. Happy hunting. Cheers, Garrett