Also, Robert, you might not be dealing with the ^l line break. You might be dealing with paragraph breaks at the end of each line, so that the text looks like it does in the printed book. When I have seen that, what I have tried to do is determine if there are 2 or more paragraph breaks ^p between the paragraphs. If so, I have changed all instances of ^p^p^p to a qqq, or if there aren't usually 3 together then just the ^p^p to a qqq. Then I change single ^p to a space. Then I change all the qqq back to ^p^p^p and I make sure to change all of the ^m to a ^p^m^p because changing those gives you the blank lines before and after hard page breaks. This will ONLY work if paragraphs are separated by at least two paragraph breaks. If they aren't, you're better off rejecting the book than you are trying to change only the correct ^p to a space. -- Jamie in Michigan Currently Reading: False Prophet by Faye Kellerman www.michrxtech.com/books.html