Hi Bobbie, I discovered that if I have punctuation set higher than 2 or 3 I get all the formatting characters read with speech. To turn this down, go in the options menu, choose review voice, then turn the punctuation level down until the results are what you want--mine is set to 2 and I'm happy with it that way. As for the format markers, a lot of them are truly identifiable. They have to do with font size and style and other formatting characteristics. Mostly I leave them alone--if you delete the wrong ones sometimes you lose large portions of the file, and it's virtually impossible to know which are the wrong ones. Hth, 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.