Gerald, I do noot think I explained my problem clearly. Theregular page numbers are there and I know what to do with them. But sometimes at the tops of pages, I see sts Page 4 sts Page 5 without a cursor. If I right arrow, it brings up text and these notations are covered up. However, they are still there. I believe it is something to do with the scanning machine, because I am seeing the "torn" for Tom, and "cornpany" for company error. My concern is what the stripper or system equipment will do with the sts page 4, sts page 5 error because I cannot delete it manually with Word. I hope this makes my problem clearer to you. Thanks, Sue S. ----- Original Message ----- From: Gerald Hovas To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 8:14 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: validation question Sue, Any text in the header would be treated like any other text in a running header by the Stripper. You should do the same. Gerald -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of siss52 Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 5:17 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] validation question Hi everyone, I am validating Cypress Point by Diane Chamberlain, and there is something I have never seen. For page numbers, it looks like this: sts page 2 or whatever page it happens to be. Is the sts important, and what does it stand for? I am wondering if I could just delete "sts page" and leave the number only. Thanks, Sue S.