Sorry for the bother Paul. The same thing with this code, .InsertAfter vbCr & "*** " & vbCr tweak works just fine, but it adds space and an extra paragraph break after the asterisks, and that makes it unusable to my specific purposes, though as you said it will sure be perfect to its original general purpose. I could replace every instance of *** ^p with *** and it would be perfect, but there is enough extra work as it is with editing documents and I'm trying to save me some time.