With thew greatest respect to both people who have been kind enough to respond. I think you have missed the point of my question. - do not want to know how ti post a question, I can do that. I wanted to know how I could find an existing thread that already exists without having to go through all the pages in the index. (He crossword I like but need help or hints with is the guardian genius which lats a month. Sometimes it is enough to see the existing thread and I do not need to post a query but finding the thread can be a real pain as I could hasve to go through up to a months worth of pages in the index to find it.