Have you tried using FileSave As, and choosing the "Text only with
line breaks" file type?

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"DavidH" wrote in message
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Thanks Mike,
It is not the hard returns that I want to find.
I want to find the soft returns that Word inserts as it wraps a
line.
Then i want to replace them with hard returns.
many thanks DavidH