Thanks for the reply Ed

Unfortunately, I got a COM error with that pattern. It doesn't seem to like the (*) in the middle. I can change the pattern to '\**\*' and it will naturally find all occurences but then the replacement string '< I >$1< /I >' goes around each word e.g. '< I >$1< /I >'MyWord'< I >$1< /I >'.

I may have to look at another way of doing this. It just seemed like the RegExp object was suited for it.

Cheers
AJ