Unfortunately, Kasondra, one at a time is the only way, I think. To globally replace the hyphen with nothing, which can be done, would also cause words that should be hyphenated to close up and you'd have to go back and find them -- although if you spell-checked *after* doing the global replace the spell-checker might find those words and then you could correct them. You can try with a small section of your book and see if that would work out o.k. Cindy --- Kasondra payne <Kassyp36@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > > > I just downloaded this book. I think Carrie > submitted it. The scan I > great. I?ve found no real spelling errors at all. > However at the end of > most lines the last word is hyphenated when it > doesn?t have to be. I tried > to get the find and replace to recognize this, but > it doesn?t. Is there a > more automatic way of getting rid of this than doing > it by hand? It is an > RTF file, and I am using MSWORD 2003. Please help! > > > > > Kasondra Payne > > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.9.5/58 - > Release Date: 7/25/2005 > > ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs