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Webdrive is a newer commercial program.

There was an older program written for Novell called Netdrive. I have been using it on my XP Pro machine with great success. It makes a connection to a remote ftp server and maps a drive letter to it.

Once done you can open/edit/save files on a remote ...

Yes, it does.
I often compute files of 10 000 to 20 000 000 lines with complex macros.

Thanks for adding that, Arathorn76. I often do the same when I am "flossing & glossing" a set of CSV entries for a Dbase.

The longest one I've done, so far, was 182,000 line entries. This was a complete copy ...

Another handy comand line tool is PDFToHTML

Reads a PDF file and does it's best to make an HTML file of it. Multi-column pages are not it's strong point, but it does a pretty god job.

Freeware:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdftohtml/

And no, I don't have a thing to do with this one, either ...

Ok, I've been using TextPad for roughly ten years, but today is the first day I have participated in this form. I searched the Tips section on either/or/and "speed" and "screen" and came up blank before posting this. Maybe I'm posting the obvious, I don't know. But...

Faster Macro Execution:
If ...

Sure, I'll take a stab at it!

Ok, I took your sample data, and made a 10,100 line file by simply replicating it.

If what you see below is acceptable, then what I did to accomplish it shouldn't take
more than 5-7 minutes, tops. No, this is not a one-button-click answer. But it does
work, and it ...

Some encouragement, perhaps.

I started using Textpad with 4.72, after a couple years of using a freeware editor called PFE (Professional Editor), paid for it at 4.75 (I think), and have spent so much time working with it, I never considered upgrading, for fear of it turning into something like one ...