Shelley

I'm expecting you to come up with some of the logic since you have been given oodles of code and don't appear to be experimenting on your own. Because you have never supplied a sample with EVERY condition in it at once, nobody has coded a complete solution.

A single search and replace won't do the full job because of the variations so you need to break it into steps.

Try to think of some stepwise logic that allows the macro to work out the difference between the 'means' you don't want and the 'means' you do want. Perhaps search for bold content and stick a unique tag after it to use as a reference point eg '</Bold>'. Then search on either side of that tag to get rid of punctuation or spaces right beside it. Then search for '</Bold>means' and replace it with a tab.

If you use the same stepwise logic for your other problem (definition followed by a paragraph mark) you can work out a series of steps that works there too.

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Andrew Lockton
Chrysalis Design, Melbourne Australia