Biodiversity folks, The following commands are needed to implement italics when entering text directly into the database. <i> turns on italics </i> turns off italics So to enter a species scientific name, type <i> "the name" </i>. For example, red maple is <i>Acer rubrum<i/>. The italics must be turned off when writing in a paragraph or all words in the remainder of the text will be in italics. Have fun. Dave Bowne