13 is, believe it or not, a carriage return. Do you want to send me the file off list and I'll try to positively identify what it is in your case? george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx George. From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Amro Bilal Sent: 05 August 2010 16:23 To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] Re: MS Word help OK George and Guy. I think we're going somewhere with this. Apparently the offending character is(character 13) whatever that is. Jaws says character 13 when I press the Jaws key with comma three times on the blanks. So do you know what character 13 is? How to type it in the replace dialog to remove it? Replacing double space and ^p^p with single space did not get rid of the blanks unfortunately. Cheers, Amro ----- Original Message ----- From: George Bell <mailto:george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2010 2:58 PM Subject: [access-uk] Re: MS Word help The chances are that there are two hard carriage returns between lines. Let's hope that there are at least three between paragraphs, or you may be in for some serious editing. Suggest you make a copy of the document first, just in case the following fails. In Word 2003's Search and Replace, Search for ^p^p - that is circumflex p circumflex p. (The circumflex is shifted 6.) In the Replace with box, simply pres space bar once. Now click Replace all. This will remove all instances of two consecutive hard carriage returns, and replace them with a space. However, be warned that if paragraph breaks are only separated with two returns, you will end up with one massive paragraph. George. From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Amro Bilal Sent: 05 August 2010 14:07 To: Access-UK Subject: [access-uk] MS Word help Hi all, On a Word document I have Jaws reports a blank between each line. Is there a quick way to remove those blanks in Word 2003 rather than deleting them one by one? Jaws is posing at each blank which is interrupting the flow of reading. This document was converted from PDF to plain text format and that what must cause those blanks to appear between the lines. Cheers, Amro __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 5343 (20100805) __________ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 5343 (20100805) __________ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com