I change optional hyphens (^- in word) to nothing. I also change tabs to spaces but not until I've done a "find" to look for the tabs, because often where there is a tab is a problem spot in the scanning. Sometimes the page scanned crooked and the text is a little off or has lots of hard returns in it where there are a lot of tabs. In word I also look for al occurences of -^p (hyphen hard return) and fix those. Mayrie will have a good list for you that she regularly uses. -- Jamie in Michigan Currently Reading: Lost: The Search for Six of Six Million by Daniel Mendelsohn www.michrxtech.com/books.html