Hi Gerald, Thanks for the more advanced and clearer description of the vagaries of Word's find/replace. I didn't know what the white space thing was when I saw it in the list of special characters. Oh, I knew what white space was in terms of how artists talk about it, but I didn't know what exactly MSWord meant by it. And your description of how to tackle some of these sticky find/replace situations was more lucid than mine. Normally I like to do my editing in Kurzweil, but I must grudgingly admit that Word's find/replace is a bit more sophisticated and a fair bit faster than Kurzweil's. But I'm not complaining--Kurzweil isn't meant to be a word processor