Terra, if you wanted to be sure you had blank lines before and after the page break, even though you've already done the ^p^m^p replace, you could do it one more time, replacing each ^m with ^p^m^p. I think the stripper strips out extra blank lines so if you had two blank lines before and after each page break, I doubt it would be a problem. Jamie in Michigan Currently Reading - Lisey's Story - Stephen King