Forget totally about soft page breaks. If you want to get rid of them completely (and it is not necessary to do so), increase the size of your pages to legal paper or a custom size that is maybe 20 or 30" long. A soft page break will not be able to be replaced. A hard page break (which is ^m) can be replaced with the find and replace command. You will only want to be adding page numbers after hard page breaks. I don't know about soft page numbers. I have never seen such a thing. -- Jamie in Michigan Currently Reading: False Prophet by Faye Kellerman www.michrxtech.com/books.html