Word shows the MIME code to be 80 characters wide. So I tried [!^13 ]{79,80}^13 It came back none found Also I found this script on the internet that is suposed to delete any paragraph that does not have a given string.
I created the macro for it and it shows as the only macro available how ever when I click on the macro to run WORD try's to run a script I tried yesterday and not the current one. I can't find any reference to the one it is trying to run. So I can't delete it either.

Did you use a wildcard Find/Replace (ie did you check the 'use wildcards' option)?

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No I didn't this type of searching is new to me. I have now checked it and it is now finding lines but they don't look anything close to the MIME code. I don't see a similarity to what it is finding. It seems to be finding the first space in a line I found a reference to the wild caRD FIND FUNCTION AND AM TRYING TO UNDERSTAND IT NOW.

The wildcard Find Expression I posted won't find spaces, as the [!^13 ] part tells it to ignore paragraph breaks and spaces. The numbers in the braces, tell it how many characters in the nominated sequence must be found. The final ^13 says the found sequence must be followed by a paragraph break.

With your file in Word, does each line end with a ¶ character?

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No, since it is a code file I doubt there are any formatting or control codes. I have dissected your expression and I can get it to find any space or skip any space if I only use [!^32] or ^32. And I can find any string of 80 characters by using *{80}. But I can not get the exclusion expression to work with the 80 character expression. This is what I have right now but it is ignoring the exclusion. [!^32]*{80}

If you're not seeing the ¶ character at the end of each line (even when you toggle the formatting display on/off), that means the MIME code lines are wrapped in Word. In that case, try using;
Find = ^13[!^13 ]@^13
Replace = ^p

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I found out why the exclusion was not being recognized. The use of the * was redundant and over rode the exclusion. It is now finding any string that is a minimum of 255 characters that does not have a space in it. The find function has a limit on the string length of 255. I have tried it manually a few times and it seems to be skipping all other strings. Let you know if I try to do it automatically.

After 30 manuals I clicked replace all. My Norton utility poped up showing high CPU usage Ha Ha it may take awhile. It just finished 24326 replacements!