Joe:
I was trying to gently encourage you to figure it out for yourself. It's not
terribly difficult, and Find and Replace (especially with wildcards) is so
useful, you really ought to build your skills with them.
The online help is okay, and you can get lots of great advice on the Word
MVP FAQs site:
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/general/UsingWildcards.htm
Failing that, if you ckeck the Use Wildcards check box, the following Find
What argument finds all the characters between the triple chevrons in the
sample text you sent.
\\\*\\\
The "*" means any number of any characters. You have to escape the ""
character when using it in a wildcard search, so each one has to have the
backslash before it.
You would replace this with NULL, that is, you leave the Replace With box
empty.
Similarly, you can't use ^p in a wildcard search, so to find paragraphs, you
need to enter the character number as ^13. To get all of the sample you sent,
you'd use a Find What argument like:
Newsgroups:*^13*^13*^13*^13*^13*^13*^13*^13*^13*^1 3*^13
With one repetition of *^13 for each group of text ending in a paragraph mark.
Bear
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Windows XP, Word 2000