Unfortunately, that's the way my scanner converter converts. The only way I've figured to get rid of them is by hand as I read along. You can get rid of them a paragraph at a time, at least on Word, by blackening the paragraph up to the final mark (it's a paragraph mark in my Word) and replace with nothing. However, I've found this more time-consuming in a whole book than by reading the book and deleteing the paragraph symbol as I go. Cindy -- "E." <thoth93@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have run into several validations lately where > there are hard linefeeds > at the end of lines. Usually these should only > occur when there is a new > paragraph or around page numbers. I want a set of > cleanup find and replace > routines which strip off the unnecessary ones while > leaving the ones which > come after closed quote marks, question marks, > periods or surround page > numbers. Anybody have any easy way of doing this? > By the way, if you do > you can download low risk investing which I just > realeased to the step 2 > page and work your macro on it. I would do it > myself but am about to leave > for csun. > > E. > > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com