I'm not sure (because I didn't understand what was going on) if this is the same question that Sebastian Fischmeister asked earlier ("Custom escapes & the evaluation order in fill-template"), but is it possible to construct a capture template using something like the %{prompt} that replaces _all_ occurrences of the prompt string throughout the capture buffer, rather than just at the insertion point of the escape expression? I want to do something like this: -----------8<-------------------------------- ("p" "phone log" entry (file+datetree org-phone-log) "* %^{Organization} - %^{First Name} %^{Last Name} :PROPERTIES: :FIRST_NAME: {First Name} :LAST_NAME: {Last Name} :ORG: {Organization} :END: usw. -----------8<-------------------------------- where the value entered in response to {First Name} gets globally substituted in two or more places in the template. Can this be done? tnx, maab -- ==================================== Michael Baum You should never have your best trousers on when you go out to fight for freedom and truth. - Ibsen