Hi Sue, My understanding is that it only takes out optional hyphens. I hope that's true! I think that if the caret weren't before the hyphen in the find box then all hyphens would be removed. So, I do think we're safe using ^- in the find box. Mayrie _____ From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sue Stevens Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2012 4:23 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Fwd: Re: Re: Optional Hyphens But won't that fix take out all of the hyphens, even the ones in compound words that are supposed to be there? Sue S. From: Vivian Flores <mailto:vivian@xxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2012 5:44 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Fwd: Re: Re: Optional Hyphens Just in case, ^- is shift 6 and then a hypen. Vivian Hi Lori; Search for optional hypens in word ^- then do a replace with nothing. Vivian At 03:11 PM 4/12/2012 -0700, you wrote: As I recall, they ar added by the scanning program. They are just in the middle of words and the speech says "optional hyphen". I deleted a lot of emails because I thought a way to remove them all at once was in the manual, but I can't find it. I will just remove them one by one although it will certainly slow down my progress with the book. Lori No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.1913 / Virus Database: 2411/4932 - Release Date: 04/12/12