Paul, the problem with the brackets is the bookmarking you mentioned. Did what you suggested and the brackets were deleted. Thanks.

Back to the first problem of the boxes. As I mentioned before, they print; thus, have to be removed. I start with unboxed data in either a properties or table cell. If I copy from any of these locations and paste it in the document boundary or table cell, that destination text is boxed. If I paste special like you suggested the text is unboxed. I have 26 tables in which three cells per table have different data. selecting the boxed data in a cell and; cut, paste special, unformatted text has corrected the problem with one cell exception. That cell data will not unbox. Will have to work on that.