Macropod,

Thanks for responding. I'll admit these find/replace things are new to me. I will research it.

However I wanted to run something by you. I wrote a small .net program that brought in parts of the word doc one character at a time. I found a paragraph by looking at the doc in word and found that at the beginning of paragraph there were two leading "spaces" (I'm not sure what the characters were-I wanted to find the ascii codes of these two characters thinking that there might be some garbage or some Word formatting characters)

The odd thing is that I found the last few charactesrs of the previous paragraph then an ascii 13 (a carriage return). At the beginning of the new paragraph with the two spaces, I could only see the first visible letter in the document that was in the paragraph's. In other words the two "spaces" weren't in the file.

As a test I went into a copy of the word doc. I was able to get rid of the "spaces" by backspacing over them.

If there is something I don't know, such as the fact that some of the formatting characters are not directly in line with the text, please tell me. I could go through this by hand but I'd rather not.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Fig000