Macropod,
Thank you for your last post. You mention two steps, however after much testing I think I'm missing a first step.

I am not he original author of this 600 page manual I'm working on. It looks like the previous author manually inserted PERIODS at the end of some HEADING styles. In other words, this manual I think first needs to be cleaned of all unaccounted PERIODS before I do the First and Second step you mention.

Can you please advise me how I could select HEADING Styles 1,2,4,5 and 6 all at the same time and then do a Find/Replace operation that deletes all of the unwanted periods located at the end of all HEADINGs? My goal is to first clean all of the HEADINGS of unaccounted PERIODS that were inserted by a previous author of this manual.

My theory is if I first clean all of the unaccounted PERIODS first and then apply the two steps you mention in your previous post I will get results that are error free. So instead of two steps to do I will be doing 3 steps:

• Step #1. Clean entire manual of unaccounted periods at the end of Headings.
• Step #2. Run this operation: Find = ([!.])(^13) - Replace = \1.\2
• Step #3. Run this operation: Find = .^13 - Replace = ^&

As I mentioned this manual is 600 pages and the worst part is that it contains 900 HEADINGS (Levels 1 thru 6 Heading Styles). All of them need to be underlined with a PERIOD located at the end with no underline applied to the PERIOD. Therefore, I am really motivated to make this work because doing this manually would take a very long time. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks again.