Oh, and be very leary of Direct Distance Entry with running OSNAPS in 2006 and later, if you have Distance Input enabled and/or a floating console window. In these cases, it measures the distance directly toward the cursor. Otherwise (and in earlier versions of Autocad), DDE measures toward any active running OSNAPs, i.e., if you put the cursor close enough to the end of a line to activate the END running OSNAP, then DDE would measure directly toward the end of the line (the active OSNAP), even if the cursor is still floating in space "near" the OSNAP. But with DI enabled, this is different. If you want to use DDE with running OSNAPS, make sure you put the cursor right on the OSNAP before doing the DDE. If you have the "magnet" feature on (in OPTIONS, it's ON by default), then the cursor will tend to "snap" to running OSNAPs, and the DDE will work correctly. You just need to make sure you put the cursor over the OSNAP (it should "magnetically lock" to the OSNAP) before you type the DDE.