Hi Sorin Yes, it works in oXygen 14! Thank you very much for your help! The only problem I have now is how I can explain this to my (DITA) students and how I can convince them to use regular expressions. Most of them are new to DITA and XML. Also, when you search for some text, you don't know where the end-of-line character is, so to find the topic in the example below, you may have to replace every space with (\s+) in the Find/Replace in Files dialog: Find: consists(\s+)of(\s+)the(\s+)following(\s+)zones if the topic contains: <p status="changed">The body of the <keyword conref="_conref_library.xml#** topic_qjt_sdx_1f/keyword_wms_**s2x_1f"/> consists of the following zones:</p> Kind regards -- Yves Barbion www.scripto.nu