Thank you so much for the advice. Unfortunately, your version still goes just as slow for me. It is strange, but I really think the slowness comes from the size of the word document I'm working in for some reason. I can paste the exact same text that the macro functions slowly on into a new word document and the find and replace action then works instantaneously, but in the big word document I've been working in, it takes several seconds to do the same thing. Not really sure why...