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?