Hi VBA gurus I remember doing this before (I also remember I had trouble figuring it out last time) but I'm having a mental blank. What I want to do is this: Take the text from a selection and place it in a variable. Strip the spaces, question marks, etc, from the variable and pass the result to another variable. I do not want the selected text in the document to change. Any ideas? -Melanie ************************************************** To post a message to austechwriter, send the message to austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe to austechwriter, send a message to austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "subscribe" in the Subject field. To unsubscribe, send a message to austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe" in the Subject field. To search the austechwriter archives, go to www.freelists.org/archives/austechwriter To contact the list administrator, send a message to austechwriter-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx **************************************************