Hi Designgrrl

You are correct. I'm confusing word cross references with hyperlinks. Doing a search and replace on hyperlinks reproduces the effect you describe.

I found two possible ways around this.

1. Show field code rather than field results. the text in the field code gets changed but updating the field produces the unchanged original. However this is not robust as there may be stuff in the field codes which shouldn't be changed.

2. A more laborious search and replace making sure you use each style in turn. Something like

Dim myStyle as Style
For each myStyle in Activedocument.styles
With selection.find
If mystyle = activedocument.style(wdstylehyperlink) then
'do nothing
else
.clearformatting
.replace.clearformatting
.text=<search text>
.replacement.text=<replace text>
.format=true
.style=mystyle


.forward=true
.wrap=wdfindcontinue
.execute
end if
next
end sub


Please note that you have to include the style in the search parameters so you can avoid searching when the style matches 'Hyperlink'

Yeah, see my post of a minute ago. You're right on track -- it's just that VBA isn't precisely linear. It may not figure out that it has found a hyperlink until after it digs in there. (sigh)