Thanks Vivka! You're quite right about the absence of Chr(13). The error was a run-time error, but I cannot specify, because now the code works perfectly without any error. À la prochaine!

Good news! À la prochaine!

The absence of anything is the reason for the error. If a group of things has only one item then you encounter an error if you are asked to go to the item before the first item.

I don't understand the point of the effort after the code provided in #22 of this thread. What are you trying to achieve that that macro didn't do?

The code you posted in #27 seeks to remove one of the spaces at the end of a paragraph but would need to be run multiple times if there was more than one space. And you would still need to avoid the error when the paragraph is empty.

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Andrew Lockton
Chrysalis Design, Melbourne Australia

Many thanks, Guessed! The matter is not quite clear to me, since the error appeared even if all the paragraph marks were preceded by a single space. However, since the error has occurred again (!?), I am now using your code in #27, which works perfectly even if all the paragraph marks are preceded by a single space. The mystery remains. Thanks a lot!