My next scan I will have to see if that works; FineReader Pro 9 also creates them and I know a simple copy and paste does not find them, so they all had to be manually removed. Thanks! Valerie From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jamie Yates, CPhT Sent: Saturday, October 17, 2009 10:45 AM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Optional hyphens You're welcome! I only know this because OmniPage does those optional hyphens and before I didn't know I had to get rid of them. Once I knew what they were and the problem they caused, I figured out how to get rid of them in word. Maybe one day I will figure out how to get rid of them in OmniPage. -- Jamie in Michigan Currently Reading: Lethal Legacy by Linda Fairstein See everything I've read this year at: www.michrxtech.com/books.html