E, I understand the problem. Of course you can't just find and replace the hyphen because that would close up words that maybe shouldn't be, and you can't do the same with the end-of-line paragraph symbols because that would eliminate all paragraphs as well. I know of no simple solution. Cindy -- _______________________________________________ Find what you are looking for with the Lycos Yellow Pages http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.asp?SRC=lycos10