Hi Linda This might work: With your cursor somewhere in the text in columns, go into Format with Alt+o Press c to get into the columns menu. The focus will land in number of columns, so just Arrow down to 1 and hit enter. Cheers Barry _____ From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Linda Gaitskell Sent: 02 October 2009 8:56 PM To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] remove columns Hi all I have coppied and pasted some text from a website into a word document, it seems to be in column format. Is there a way I can get rid of the columns and have it in continuous lines? thanks Linda