Don,

Try "Find & Replace" in WordPerfect.

FIND -> ==============<carriage return><carriage return>
REPLACE -> ===============<carriage return>

It's much, much faster than manually editing this stuff.

                        Yours Truly,
                        Jeff Boulier

PS To forstall a flood of mail messages: yes, XEDIT, sed, awk, vi, emacs &
etc. can all do this too :-)

> I still have a few hours of editing ahead of me to remove the extra
> line.