Thanks, but I should have said: I have no idea of the terms in my exclusion list. All I know is, I want to highlight the stand-alone terms 'Note'/'Notes', but I don't want to highlight any term (which could be anywhere in a long document) with 'Note'/'Notes' in it (ie any term with an initial upper-case word preceding or following 'Note'/'Notes' except, if preceding, for specified words commonly appearing at the beginning of a sentence (The, Each, An, etc)).