Database mgt ain't my gig, but I really liked milamber42's original suggestion. In addition to tracking the authors for credits, sounds like a handy tool just for finding stuff in my own archives. (I know I've got that damn "AudreyII" man eating plant somewhere, but can't find it by guessing filenames and don't recall the author) Wouldn't standardizing a process like this make everyone's file management easier? Couldn't something like this be easily set up (by one of you smart guys) for a ubiquitous program like Word, or Excel, or whatever their real database program is? A type of macro where a standard format record is merely added to a searchable table or database.