Hi: Thanks to the help of a number of you on this site, the following code
successfully replaces the occurrence of a forward slash that is preceded by
one or more spaces with a highlighted space. I would like to create code that
would remove the occurrence of a forward slash if it is the first character
in the first line of the document. Any ideas?

'Removes / proceeded by a space and replaces with a highlighted space

Dim rDcmForwardSlash As Range

Set rDcmForwardSlash = ActiveDocument.Range

With rDcmForwardSlash.Find

   .Text = " @/"
   .Replacement.Highlight = True
   .Replacement.Text = " "
   .MatchWildcards = True
   .Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll

End With