Roger, I opened Word Pad just to play with it. I can't find a way to show the hidden marks like you an in Word. I know that in the past I was told Open Office does not work well with Jaws, but I thought I saw someone say that maybe now it does? I might have uninstalled Open Office but let me see if I still have it. I should have it either on my desktop or my laptop; I only uninstalled it in once place. Open Office is free from openoffice.organd it works a lot like Word from what I remember. Ok, Open Office does display the formatting like Word will. But I am still working on how to do a find and replace in OO. It's not the ^p like it is in Word. -- Jamie in Michigan Currently Reading: Blood is the Sky by Steve Hamilton <br> See everything I've read this year at: www.michrxtech.com/books.html