.OCR puts those paragraph symbols in . I've seen lots of files like that. Sometimes a line by line match is important so it must be common for many OCRs. To get around the tediousness of not being able to do a global replace on them, sometimes it's faster to go through the document and paste a unique word at every genuine paragraph break, then do a global replace to get rid of all paragraph marks. Finally, I'll go back and replace my unique word with paragraph marks. Monica