Macropod,

Thanks you for all your help. No never manipulated the doc with a program. I had the mistaken notion that the two "spaces", whatever they were, would show up in a stream of the document. However there is nothing there so it must have something to do with some unknown formatting character somewhere in the vicinity of the "spaces". I doubt I'll find these though I'll keep looking.

I did try your find replace and it didn't really seem to recognize the find value you suggested (^13??). So I'll ask how I can post a smal snippet of the document. I didn't see any buttons on this forum that would allow that. Let me know how I can do that. I can only hope that it will something small and obvious to you.

Thanks again,
Fig000