At 12:08 AM 01/02/2001 -0800, Dirksen wrote: >Please give me a hint. Get the product TinyTablesPlus. You could create a "lines" property with something like: key1:value1 key2:value2 Then string split it and create the dictionary just before you need to use it. But I've found TinyTablesPlus to be very very handy. chas