Thanks, Paul. That's the solution, really. Much obliged.

Still, I'd like to know if it's possible in Word VBA, to insert the equivalent to keystrokes. I understand there's such thing as wdKeyEsc (or code 27) for the ESCAPE key, etc. But I d'ont know how to use that.
And in Excel you can write Application.Inkeys {ESC}, I think, to that end. But in Word macros?

But for my current need for Find and Replace, you saved the day. Thanks again.
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