Mary, It doesn't sound like the problem you experienced was at all caused by something you did. It sounds like a total malfunction to me. I would send your destroyed book file to Kurzweil support as an attachment, and ask them to look it over. Give them any details you can about the settings you used and what you did. The E-mail address to use is kurzweil1000support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sarah Van Oosterwijck http://home.earthlink.net/~netentity -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.10.2 - Release Date: 4/21/2005