Hi macropod,

Thank you! That worked a treat and saved me buckets of time, over 7,500 replacements made in the blink of an eye!

There is one thing which is puzzling however; there are a number of occurances where the wildcard string you so helpfully provided failed to reconise what I believed to be covered by the search parameters. In these cases a lowercase character is followed by a ? and then immediately by an UPPERCASE character, in each case when part of a dialogue in between speech marks ". For example;

"How did you manage to finish the spell checking so quickly?I thought it was going to take you all day!"
"Some helpful soul on MSOffice Forums solved the problem for me!Now I can finish this tedious undertaking in the fraction of the time it would have taken me and put my valuable time to better use. The pub springs to mind, actually."

As far as I can see, the wildcard search parameters should have caught and replaced these by virtue of the middle part of the string, (where a lowercase character is followed by a ? and then by an UPPERCASE character) as in the highlighted section ([a-z0-9][.,\!?:;])([A-Z]).

Is there any reason why the find/replace isn't working under these conditions?

Thanks.