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.