Macropod, I have a mailmerge in the footer used for barcoding documents and I have encountered an issue similar to this that I am hoping you can help with. my barcodes have to contain a social security number for my doc imaging system to correctly index/archive the documents and it only recognizes numerical characters when reading the barcodes for the SSN field. The software that feeds the mailmerge in my documents, however, will only provide the SSN data in ###-##-#### format. Is there a way that I can have Word remove the hyphenation without just performing "subtraction" of the three different number sets?

Thanks.