Hi Dave, I never thought WordPad ate formatting either, but I've been working with E to figure out why pagination was removed from several of her files, and WordPad seems to be the culprit. I'm going to try performing a few experiments to see if this is true, and if anything can be done to prevent it, besides not using WordPad I mean. <grin> Any theories or ideas you may have on the subject would be appreciated. Thanks, Kellie