John, it would seem this is MS Agent's attempt to show the carriage return. When you are processing the sentence, check for and eliminate the chr(13) (and possibly chr(10)) characters.

Barbarra

>Hi,
> I am using MS Word OLE automation in my application. I open a word document file and retrieve a sentence (with carriege return) from activedocument. I need to process each of the letters of the retrieved sentence. After processed, I pass it to MS Agent to read iT out.
> From the balloon of MS Agent, there is a sign "|" (bold) at the end of the sentence. Anybody know what is it? How to remove it?
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>Thank you