I have no idea how to do it with automation. I've not done much Word automation.

>You were right craig.
>i went to document in word and the option to 'remove space after each paragraph' does solve the issue of the extra lines
> - question now is how would i do that in the automation coding
>i have added the following if that's any help. can't seem to find anything obvious in the literature.
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>loSelection.Start=1
>loSelection.End=len(filetostr(mytext.txt))
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