Turn off 'soft hyphens' in Word? Or use whatever is that cockamamie command for "no break space" which signals that at end of a line, this expression may not be broken-up (?)
HTH,
Ashton
Yabut.. what about all the other Wordbloat gotchas? and encrypted machine and User ID and.. 5400 bytes in Word6 for "the quick brown fox ..." (Maybe up to 10K in 97?)