If you edit, it necessarily clears all selections, so I can't think of any way to do exactly what you want. My first thought was to change the selections to RED, but since they are all non-printing characters, nothing would show! Something else which would seem almost too tedious, would be to hold the command key down to activate non-contiguous selection, and then deselect all those which are as desired, then replace in selection for the remaining ones. Another option would be to have the macro do it step-wise and confirm each one or undo the last one. But that would likewise become very tedious. Similarly, since its a simple search and replace, you might consider having the macro merely set up and do the first change, then afterward, with the search/replace fields filled in, set command keys for the commands "Replace then Find" and "Find Next". Then you could press keys for each instance, and when one goes awry, simply hit undo and then continue. What is called for would be an option to lock on selection highlights that are no longer actual selections. that is interesting and could be useful once accustomed to it. Maybe someone will think of a way to accomplish that... maybe with a side effect of notes or something? There is already special highlighting for auto numbers, index entries etc. Maybe one of those could be set for the initial selection and then cleared afterward? Interesting challenge, though I don't see a direct solution with a new feature... Ben Andrus __________________________________________________ On 2011 Jun 20, Mon, at 7:35 pm, THDW wrote: > People > > I have a nice little macro that converts soft returns into spaces. > > However, just occasionally I have missed that a soft return should > be a new paragraph and not a space. > > When I do the find and replace, all the changes are highlighted. > All the highlighted changes cease to be highlighted once I start > editing. > > Is there any way to do a find and replace, then keep all the > instances highlighted while I edit them ? > > TIA > > Tim