-Thanks, Kellie. I don't think I made myself clear before. When I scan, my OCR puts paragraph marks at the end of each line, keeping the line lengths the same as in the book. When I validate before sending missing pages to people, or when I validate books that where the submitter seems to have the same kind of OCR (I'm about to start one soon like that), then I manually delete the p mark as I go along. It's no big deal. Where I have a problem is sometimes when I want to indent a section because it is a long quote and it is indented in the book, or when I want to indent the first line of a paragraph. Something in the original formatting causes the whole paragrapah to move. I've tried checking the formatting choices and other things. Finally, the only way I can get it right is by putting a paragraph mark at the end of the preceding line. Then I can do what I want with the next line. I doesn't happen very often in a book, though, so I'm glad to know that one stray p mark now and then won't disturb anyone. smile Cindy __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com