Kelley, Cheryl's original message asked for a Hard Line Break, which is not a Paragraph Marker or ^p which I believe is equivalent to your \n or new line character in your message. Hi Kelly. Somehow I didn't get your message yesterday. How do you write a hrd line break? Carriage return didn't work. Thanks. Cheryl, and Kelley, If you're trying to do a Hard Line Break in Word or what Word calls a Manual Line Break, then it's ^l for searching and Shift-Return for typing. ^p is a soft line break or Paragraph Marker. That is what you get when pressing the Return key while typing. It's equivalent to an ASCII Carriage Return. That's why Word says to substitute ^0013 (ASCII 13) for Search and Replaces where wildcards are used since ^p is not recognized with wildcards. Gerald -----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Kellie Hartmann Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2005 12:43 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: removing dashes with macros Hi Cheryl, In Word, it's ^p . Hth, Kellie