CompuServe Messages

Mark – Whoooah! Perhaps I didn't understand your original question, but if you're referring to the DTEXT command's prompt for the *initial* text insertion point, where you have the option of specifying the style, or justification/alignment, then that is easily handled by (initget) and (getpoint). I thought you were referring to DTEXT text entry (where *everything* that you type is taken literally, and where there are no "option" keywords). For example: (initget "Style Justify Fit Align") (setq p1 (getpoint "\nInsertion point or Style/Justify/Fit/Align: ")) The above lets you specify a point, or type in one of the option keywords that has been initialized by INITGET. You only need to type the first character in this case, followed by a return. -TonyT.