Hi Peter The only way that I can get Word to find a string of ... is to copy the 3 dots from the document and then paste into the Find dialog. All items will then be found. I didn't need to check any options. Hope this helps Naomi ________________________________ From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Peter Bentley Sent: 08 January 2008 20:01 To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] Word [Scanned] Hello I'm using word 2000 but I suspect the same question would apply to the latter versions. I am trying to use the word find facility to locate ... strings. These are not found though they are in the document. I ticked the "whole word" options but this threw up the error message that only alphebetical strings canb be searched for using this option. How should I go about doing this please? Peter Bentley