Didn't shop to long but know they would rather us pay for everything. Anyway.. this one makes me realize the value of region in that to do this manually is not so bad but to automate would be better/prefered for sure. In the operation, the converting the txtexp-loaded lwpolylines into a region must be done one-by-one else when converting to a lwpolyline from the region as one object doesn't work or I need a different region-2-poly converter. Still this single conversion sub operation is certainly why I'm here! For me it's just explode the text, convert them to regions, then separately union the regions of each letter, finally convert the regions to lwpolylines. My guess [bad] is to select the converted letter as a separate region would be by selecting touching objects of the converted..... Thanks guys for your help