This message was posted by susan on AmayaUsers.com. PLEASE DO NOT REPLY VIA EMAIL. Instead, respond to the thread on the WEBSITE by clicking here: http://www.amayausers.com/boards/ultimatebb.php?/topic/2/169.html#000002 Hi Carole, First you can make those jump stitches show on screen in DS by bringing up the properties box, go to the view tab and select show connectors. I chose to make this my default choice. Tina's comment on putting in a color change would work. You could do the same thing in the lettering properties box by putting a trim (scissors icon to right of text box) between every letter. Or an easier way is when the lettering properties box is up, select the lock/trim tab. At the bottom select the Trim if connector is greater than and put some small number in. Then most likely all of your letters will be trimmed. You can double check this on your screen if you did the view, show connectors I mentioned before. Now after saying that, I must add that you might not really want to trim after every letter. It really slows the stitching down. I like to move each letter as close as I can together and still look good. You can do this by using the left and right arrow keys that are at the right side in the lettering properties box. Then I check out on screen how much of a small jump stitch shows. If I did it right, it is so small that it won't be noticed after stitching and it doesn't need to be removed. I also like to select in the lettering properties box (about half way down) Connections, Closest Point. This helps out the problem as well. Hope this helps. Susan Embroidery Station =========================================================== The AmayaUsers Mailing List Website: http://www.amayausers.com Discussion Board: http://www.amayausers.com/boards Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://www.amayausers.com/list ===========================================================