Jill, The book has to be converted to RTF prior to upload, but there's no reason why you can't wait until you're ready to upload it before converting it to RTF. There may even be advantages to waiting until the last moment to convert it and validating it in the KES format. Gerald -----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Jill O'Connell Sent: Saturday, October 22, 2005 3:59 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Problems uploading Kellie, If you are validating a book that is in KES format, do you change it to RTF before validating or afterward? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kellie Hartmann" <hart0421@xxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 8:45 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Problems uploading > Hi Jenny, > If you don't want to wait until you get Word installed, WordPad will work > too. The Bookshare system seems to have a bit of an allergy to Kurzweil's > rtf files. But all you have to do is open them in a different word > processor, make some kind of change to the file like typing a space, > backspace over it, and save. Despite this minor issue, I still love to > edit > rtf files in Kurzweil. > Kellie > > To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to > bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list > of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line. > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.12.0/132 - Release Date: 10/13/2005 > > To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line. To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.