What is the point of your post? If you can't see it and don't show it to us then how are we going to see it for you?

Your text file doesn't resemble the outputs in your Immediate window so you've posted a random text file and expect us to work out a character from another file which you didn't give us.

Your code opens Word only briefly to read a text file into a string - this seems like overkill? What program is the VBA code running in and why don't you just open it without needing Word. If you go to the effort of creating a Word instance then you should use it to convert the text content into a Table and just read that column of text.

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Andrew Lockton
Chrysalis Design, Melbourne Australia