HI E. I took this into account. I wrote a post over the summer (I think it was during the summer) about how to protect those line breaks. When I go through a book, removing headers, I also insert a space before any first letter on a page which is a lower case letter. Then, when I do a replace for extraneous paragraph marks, those blank lines don't disappear. I go through page by page to protect chapter headings and to remove headers so it's no trouble to protect that kind of stuff. You are right, that is something to think of and I did. In a minute I'm going to send again my post, which I saved, about my preferred scanning/proofreading process. Perhaps folks might want to keep it. If not, then you can all delete it. Mayrie -----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of E. Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2009 10:41 AM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: removing extraneous linebreaks Mary, I thought of something we may need to pay additional attention to if we use your method to strip extraneous line breaks. Will your method strip the line break at the top of page as in line break page break line break page number line break text? If it does, inserting those removed line breaks is certainly faster than fixing the others we removed so I still love your method. Just finding places we volunteers may need to express care. E. 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. 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.