HI Jill: If you notice the increase in page numbers you definitely should save as kes until you're ready to upload. Sometimes RTF files have strange qquirks. *** Grace For scanning and validating tips check out http://www.jbrownell.com/bks/tl.asp For ideas of books to scan check out: the No Book Left Behind AKA Reject list http://www.jbrownell.com/bks/reject.asp Rescan List http://www.jbrownell.com/bks/rescan.asp ----- Original Message ----- From: Jill O'Connell To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, September 04, 2006 10:56 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: blank pages I was able to delete the pages by doing it in smaller amounts but Kurzweil never did tell me how many pages it deleted. Is a problem like this a very good reason to convert to Kurzweil while validating and then go back to RTF? When I saw that the number of pages was increasing erratically when using the status key, is there anything I should have done?