Hi MShroff,



OK, well that suggests the problem has to do with the conversion from the ebook format to HTML. Perhaps you should try a different ebook to HTML converter. I doubt it has anything to do with MS Office.

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Paul Edstein
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I did not do the conversion - I got it converted like that - and even I dont think its a WORD problem as such - what I am looking for is some kind of "find and replace" maybe with some wildcards or something which will help me. I am not good at wildcards. Is there some way I can specify in find that if l is in the middle of a word followed by a space then it should be replaced with ll and if l is at the end of a word it should be replaced with a ll followed by a space. Am I being too optimistic?

Sadly, yes, you're being too optimistic. With Find/Replace a 'word' is a string of characters with spaces or other puctuation marks at either end. Thus 'fol owed' is seen as two separate words in a Find/Replace operation, whilst 'runtogether' is seen as one word.

I am fairly proficient with both normal and wildcard Find/Replace operations and I can see no practical way of doing as you ask, other than to use an ordinary Find/Replace with 'Find' rather than 'Replace all' and choose in each 'found' case whether to Replace 'l ' with 'll'. There's nothing a Find/Replace operation can do to find 'missing' spaces, however - you'll need to use the spellchecker for that.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

Thank you for your patience and for taking the time to reply.
MShroff