thank you so much this is going to help me a lot!, since you seem to be very quick with the code (i havent tried the second one yet im still working out how this all works), do you know if there is a way to instead of selecting the *** i could select the next group of lets say red text or bold text or whatever is easiest, so if i wrote "put patient name here" in red text i could hit F2 and have it select that group of text for me to replace?