Thanks Merri,

the Key... events still work, but they are in no way an easy to use substitue for the SelChange event. "tracking text length" won't do me any good if a text portion replaced is as long as the replacement. And in no way do the Key... events reflect any toolbar activities. These activities will also have to be monitored.
I came to the conclusion to do it without the hyperlink feature for now, rather than programming massive workarounds to compensate the disabled Change and SelChange events, unless - either somebody has a soution to have both the feature and the Change events or I find a reasonable workaround.

What I don't quite understand: Exactly which part of the hyperlink feature disables these events and why?

So there'll be no misunderstanding: I'm refering to http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...70#post2186470, which was submitted by moeur.

Regards