Hi Charisma, Uh, I sure hope you didn't just turn your whole book into a single paragraph! Yikes! But maybe I'm misunderstanding what you did. Yes, your book will stay the way it is if you close and reopen. This profusion of unnecessary paragraph marks happens because, sometimes, OCR is set to reproduce the page as it appeared in the book with line endings where the left and right margins of the actual paper would be. It's a setting that can be fixed, if the scanner of the book knows how. I made this happen to books for a long time before someone told me what was happening! And ^p^m^p is the character string denoting paragraph mark, page break, paragraph mark. If you replaced something with that, what you put in its place is a page break surrounded by blank lines. Hope that answers your questions. Please ask if you still have questions. Mayrie -----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Charisma Sent: Friday, May 20, 2011 5:49 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Microsoft WORD 2002 paragraph marks? Cindy, OK, I just tried that and it turns out that the paragraph mark is ^p. I replaced all with a space and they all disappeared, but I sure as heck would not have wanted to do that BEFORE I did the formatting to find chapter beginnings and subheadings and such. When I did it with those done I was able to see right where I needed to do a return to separate a heading of some type. The questions is, will it STAY this way after I close and reopen the rtf? And why are they there in the first place? And why doesn't ^p^m^p work to get rid of them? Thanks smile Charisma To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line. To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.