Word's limit in Find and Replace is 255 characters.
Try the VBA newsgroups for a macro solution.
Hope this helps.
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I need to delete two consecutive lines a bunch of times in a single
document,
so I thought finding them and replacing them with a single space would do
the
trick. I can't seem to get it to find more than one line at a time. I
can't
find the answer to this anywhere.