Frank, unfortunately I don't have any control over the text (as you don't have much control over politicians ;-), so I guess I just have to do the parsing.

Hovever,...

Thanks jraha and frank for your replies.

Yes Frank, the end result is going to be a hyperlinked scientific text such as:

"A drench effective against Barbers Pole can give you...

Thanks DRBuckingham for the very useful reply, particularly the rename of the logical names. Everything is working now like I wanted.

I have a 'Globals' table and at the end...