Hi Amber, I'm not a specialist in these areas, but I am curious, why work in text at all? If the download from bookshare was t x t, can't you legitimately switch to r t f anyway? Just load it into word and do a save as, r t f. Best Tom ----- Original Message ----- From: Amber Wallenstein To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2005 5:43 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] a question Hi all: I have a question. in am validating a book in .txt format, but I want to do a find/replace and find these work better in MS word, or RTF than txt. Can I take the book and paste it into a .rtf file to do the replacements, then paste it back into text? If I can't do a find-replace somehow, I'm going to have to reject the book. Thanks. Amber