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Thanks for the tip Klaus. I actually had given the object a unique identifier called "linetest" but I could not figure out the syntax to call it up from a different card and it would not call up directly by that name. The IDnumber solved the problem but I could see how this could get confusing to ke...

WOW! brilliant!

Thank you so much. I knew I was missing something obvious. Incidentally after your suggestion, I realized the id number is displayed at the top of each property inspector window.

Thanks again for the quick response

MG

Complete noob teaching myself so please bear with me if this is covered somewhere, I really have searched. I have learned how to populate a field with "chunks" from a different text field. Unfortunately I can only do this when the text field is part of the card I am working on. I have a number of di...