Hi Lissi and Paula, I had to think about the spacing issue to get it straight in my head before answering these. Lissi, I absolutely hate to tell you this after all the work you've gone to on this validation. What happens is that tabs are completely eaten and not replaced with even a space, and strings of spaces are all reduced to one space. I don't know why this should be, but we had done some testing in the past and that was what we'd figured out. Lissi, I wouldn't go back and take the spaces out of your current project. Hopefully all the care you've taken on the dashes will suffice to let readers know what's going on. Kellie