Macropod,

Yes, I wrote a .net program that read the same word file I'm working on to try to get rid of the "spaces" before the beginning of paragraphs. I thought that the formatting would be linear. In other words, there would be a sentence, a period, a ascii 13 for the end of the paragraph (I didn't see the ascii 10) and then I'd see the characters who occupied the two "spaces". There were no spaces there and in fact there were no two bytes at all. I saw the text that was shown in the word document after the "spaces". So I guess that word documents are not entirely "linear".

It seems I can't write a program to fix this automatically. I am not interested in learning the ins and outs of how a word document is structured since it will take a while to figure it out.

The "spaces" are still there. I tried the ctrl-a, cntl-e, ctrl-l trick after clearing out all the tabs. I'm not sure what is causing this. Any help would be appreciated. Sorry this is confusing. I'm a programmer, not an office expert damn it!!! :-).

Fig000