Thanks, I understand your logic, but I am deficient in Word VBA. I've usually generated it and fiddled.

Could you please provide me some code snippets for the tasks, please.

I've worked out how to find/replace the offending characters at Word Level and then let my code "rip" which would work as there are not many files to process and it occurs infrequently but that is very "inelegant".
I'd prefer to do it in code.