ok, I'm trying to do something else now, but I doubt it can be done with a batch file. I want to be able to type out a document, then run a batch file that will change the character "a" to "f", "b" to "x", etcetc for every character to encrypt it. I know you can go into MS Word and do control+h to bring up the "replace" window, but I don't want to have to type everything out each time I want to do this. So, my question is..... is there some kind of "replace a with b" syntax with a replace command to do what I described above that will go into a batch file? Thanks in advance.