That sounds what I wanted. Thanks Stuart. No need to bother any more. Have found some related material in the OO Help. The key was the phrase "Regular Expressions"! Cheers to all who pitching in. Much appreciated. Fixed it manually in the interim but handy for the future. -- Michael Granat Write Ideas Melbourne, Victoria, Australia http://www.writeideas.com.au/ Advocating the GNU/Linux Ubuntu open source OS. Ubuntu: "Linux for human beings!" http://www.ubuntulinux.org/ On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 10:53 +0800, Stuart Burnfield wrote: > Incidentally, you could also use "^ ". This would be much more > efficient if you simply want to search for a space at the start of a > line.