I have the dream of having an automator and Applescript combo that takes text from the clipboard, runs a little find and replace and puts the modified text back on the clipboard. Specifically I want to convert copied HTML links to BBCode. I found the following AppleScript Code: (* searchReplaceText(searchTerm, replaceTerm, theText) Replaces a string found in a text by another string. This handle supports lists of search/replace terms. Parameters: searchTerm: the text to search for replaceTerm: the text to use as replacement theText: the text to search/replace Examples: searchReplaceText("foo", "bar", "You are a foo") --> "You are a bar" searchReplaceText({"foo", " a "}, {"bar", " one "}, "You are a foo") --> "You are one bar" *) to searchReplaceText({"foo", " a "}, {"bar", " one "}, "You are a foo") set searchTerm to searchTerm as list set replaceTerm to replaceTerm as list set theText to theText as text set oldTID to AppleScript's text item delimiters repeat with i from 1 to count searchTerm set AppleScript's text item delimiters to searchTerm's item i set theText to theText's text items set AppleScript's text item delimiters to replaceTerm's item i set theText to theText as text end repeat set AppleScript's text item delimiters to oldTID return theText end searchReplaceText I can use Automator to grab the contents of the clipboard but I can't seem to make the above script do anything AND I have no idea how to pass it the text from the clipboard. This isn't do or die important but it has become something that is stuck in my brain and I would like to figure it out. Thanks, Tobias