lost me on that one naomi - vfp doesn't recognize that line at all. by value not sure what you mean.
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>>just did it naomi and tried to place the macro into my coding without success. is that what you were suggesting?
>>this is the macro verbatim:
>>

>> Selection.Find.ClearFormatting
>>    Selection.Find.Replacement.ClearFormatting
>>    With Selection.Find
>>        .Text = ".vmd"
>>        .Replacement.Text = "^m"
>>        .Forward = True
>>        .Wrap = wdFindContinue
>>        .Format = False
>>        .MatchCase = False
>>        .MatchWholeWord = False
>>        .MatchWildcards = False
>>        .MatchSoundsLike = False
>>        .MatchAllWordForms = False
>>    End With
>>    Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
>>

>>
>>
>Most likely these 3 lines are important
>

>.Forward = True
>        .Wrap = wdFindContinue
>        .Format = False

>
>You need to find out the value of the wdFindContinue constant first.