It does, rest assured, is the file a TEXT format or a binary one? As noted, the format is extremely important, especially when dealing with a markup language that uses the same characters you want to replace. We could say a standard "search and destroy" formula such as this would seem ideal: FIND "*>" REPLACE "" However, you'd see that HTML uses > in it's markup tags, so using a replace like that would destroy the page. However, another option would be to programmatically do a find/replace where you can look for the specific things you want. If this data were kept in a database, a trim would work fine, but if it is in the text of HTML you'd need to specify something like: FIND "xxxx>" WHERE (x = numerical value) with "" Of course your standard find and replace isn't smart enough to do this, so a custom app or script would be required. Then again, the amount of time developing and testing said script until it is done may actually take longer than just changing all those values by hand.