Thank you very much , Andrew. I'm trying to learn from each one, and I think I understand a ew things better, since, for example, yours does not produced the several "do you want to continue" dialogues that mine does.

You left a note asking about the relevancy of replacing double periods with a single. For some reason, your macro leaves a double period anyway -- just one, right after "requirement". It's because, unlike the others, there is a period in the original, as would be the case if this were a completed resume and the paragraph between the Position, Employer line and first bullet were one or more complete sentences.

Would adding {1,} to the text-to-be-replaced period solve this, or maybe it's a matter of the order in which the actions are carried out?

Please forgive me for requesting one additional action, if I may. I have spent a half-hour trying to figure out how to add a removal of italics from any text in the selection to the macro, since I had forgotten that this is sometimes also needed (I did not include any in my sample). I tried recording, using a find-replace action, but once in the macro, either it returned some coding error message or simply did not remove the italics.