Then new Doc contains only the text in () as expected in 2 columns


no country names, logivwly i dont expect them to appear untill i "tell" the macro to namely look for them.



I could add them for Doc1 and Doc2 as "Albania", "Algeria",...... but where ???


in rng1 and rng2 ?

.Text ="\(*\)"


or here
If arr1(x) <> "" Then