I suggested in an earlier post that one could copy , past into Replace and replace all but that one has to be very careful to be sure they aren't in the book. Since I'm finding in a file I'm proofing now a lot of punctuation marks that don't belong but are supposed tp be something else, I must stress the latter warning and say that I really thnk what one must do is read carefully line by lne and change the marks carefully -- not take a short cut. Cindy