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Okay I deleted the entire section where I was getting the error and then lo and behold:
KeyPhrase: "No duh" Rank: 0 Emotion: -2
Response: 1) "Dont patronize me jerk!"
Response: 2) "Ahem 'yes duh' idiot."
Response: 3) "That was condecending, Rain Man"
ERROR: Your Keyphrase is too long. Keyphrases should be short and general, and lists should only cover the most likely possibilities. Please shorten to under 150 characters.

THE KEYPHRASE IS "no duh" 6 characters counting the space!

Is that the first or only Keyphrase now? It's possible your line feeds got messed up in the crash. Save the file in Word, then copy and paste it back into Word Pad. That should reset the line feeds.

Actually it occurs deep in he middle of it, but I will try the copy/paste- back in a moment.

Nope- same error

Okay so what I ended up doing:

deleted the surrounding keyphrases as well as "no duh" then copy/pasted into new doc. It worked, but now I have to go and redo those plus some from the power failure... ahhh I love redoing work it makes me feel like I really know the material!

Do variables in a keyphrase carry through to their seeks?
So that in a keyP that is ohh: "I am *(key1)" followed by "When did you become (key1)?" then "Last week" could in the seek say "was that the first time you were ever (key1)?"
Or do those variables clear with every new user response?

In the seek, you would use (firstkey1). That will carry it over from the first keyphrase. If you had more than one (*) or something, you would use (firstkey2) and so on...

Sweet! Thanks. That means I need to restructure a lot of things all good

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