I know nothing about Open Office. That could be the solution to the problem, but I dread the process of learning something new again. Let me know how the find and replace goes and if anyone here knows if it now works well with JAWS or not please tell me before I download and waste a lot of time with something that I can't use with JAWS. "If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine." Che Guevara The Militant: http://www.themilitant.com/txtindex.shtml Pathfinder Press: http://www.pathfinderpress.com Granma International: http://granma.cu/ingles/index.html _ table with 2 columns and 6 rows Subj: [bksvol-discuss] Re: A proofreading problem to watch out for. Date: 8/1/2009 7:53:22 PM Eastern Daylight Time From: mirxtech@xxxxxxxxx Reply-to: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent from the Internet (Details) table end 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.org and 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 ************** A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy steps! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1222846709x1201493018/aol?redir=http://www.freecreditreport.com/pm/default.aspx?sc=668072&hmpgID=115& bcd=JulystepsfooterNO115)