questionHi, Kim. Yep, it's time for a search and replace. In word, hit the control key and the h key. This pulls up the search and replace option. Type in carat and then the plus sign. That is ^+ Then tab once and type in -- that is two hyphens and then tab over and hit the "replace all" button. As a result of some Daisy conversion thing, or maybe the .brf formatting thing, Bookshare likes us to convert the mdashes into two hyphens. HTH, Christina ----- Original Message ----- From: Kim Friedman To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 6:17 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] question I'm proofreading a book and have found something called an M-dash. What is it? I deleted it when I encountered it and just put in a regular dash, i.e., two hyphens. I hope that was correct. I'm thinking this book I'm proofing is going to take some work on my part. The scan is very good. I think everybody is correct when they say every new book to proofread brings its own challenges. Regards, Kim. P.S.: Maybe this is where I learn about the find-and-replace thing? I'm just correcting things as I read. K. __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4700 (20091218) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com