To search for junk chars in Kurzweil, just type the char in the search field and press enter. You need to ensure that 'whole words' is unchecked. When doing a quality check for abook I first look for tab characters '\t', because I found that spurious tabs are usually accompanied by other junk chars. When I have finished fixing those spots, I search for all special chars available from the keyboard, shifted and unshifted, starting with 'grave' at the top left of the keyboard, and ending with 'slash' at the bottom right. Guido Guido D. Corona IBM Accessibility Center, Austin Tx. IBM Research, Phone: (512) 838-9735 Email: guidoc@xxxxxxxxxxx Visit my weekly Accessibility WebLog at: http://www-3.ibm.com/able/weblog/corona_weblog.html "Shelley L. Rhodes" <juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent by: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 06/15/2004 11:35 PM Please respond to bksvol-discuss To <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> cc Subject [bksvol-discuss] Re: Need some pointers! How do you search for junk characters using K 1000? Things like ^* and the like, as these are usually my curses. And the ever popular bullet that The Braillenote calls character 34580. smile. How can I search and replace these? Shelley L. Rhodes and Judson, guiding golden juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx Guide Dogs For the Blind Inc. Graduate Advisory Council www.guidedogs.com If a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. -- Edgar Watson Howe