Thanks for the advice Mac. Your method offers a pretty fast way to check out different styles.

> That's why I keep a wordfile handy that has all this
> stuff typed out from the first time I answered someone,
> from there on in its copy 'n paste time...

Sounds like a good plan. I've been involved with listservs, majordomos and discussion groups since the early 80's, and no one has yet devised a better way than that. Unfortunately, it keeps the experts like you pretty busy. It would be perhaps unreasonable to expect folks (particularly those new to this site and new to BB) to search back through literally thousands of posts, and also a mighty chore to linearly go through thousands of styles and/or songs to find what they're looking for. The FAQS are there, but looking at the FAQ page with my original question in mind, I certainly didn't find an answer to my original question. Nor did I find one in the first several pages of Tips.

The fact is, an app as comprehensive as BB needs a good filter function, a good search function, and a good sort function (including primary and secondary indexes.) Without them, it's just too big a task, because BB itself is so huge. Fortunately, with 2011 BB now has at least a filter function via the Style Picker, and a sort function (single index) via the Song Picker - by clicking on a heading. It's getting there!

But as you implied Mac, you could put all the functions imaginable in Caps, Bold and flashing, and people would still ask the same questions over and over. C'est la via!

But I certainly got what I came here for - people who know what they're talking about offering good advice on how to, if not completely solve my problem, than approach the problem in a logical way.

Joe