I gather in the longer term that you want to batch process a large number of files which may have at least slightly different notation so I wonder if its worth doing a sequence of searches with INSTR on each file to find if it has a known header or footer ?
The Line Input code is an old timer that performs OK but there is probably a faster way to do it, I envisaged something like a linear word search with INSTR to find the lead and trailing strings for each page them grabbing each page with MID$. Alternatively if its only particular pages you require, with page numbers you can scan the text for the page notation or if you need multiple pages create an array of page offsets so you can index your way through them.
