on a different aspect of the topic - I thank you for introducing me to Scrivener and its Scrivenings view. I have occasionally looked for a program that would display and edit the contents of multiple files in a single pane as if they were a single file. I had seen a utility for *viewing* the contents of multiple files in a single pane - Depeche View - http://depecheview.com/ - but not one that allowed editing.