Hi, Nicki. Well, since you've just gotten on this list, if anyone answers your OpenBook question, you'll see the answer yourself and I won't have to forward them to you. <smile> Anyway, use Word for editing, by all means, and no, you want to upload the books as RTF, not Ark, so no worries there. Everything has to be uploaded in RTF after validation, anyway, with only a few exceptions. Take care. Julie Morales Email and Windows/MSN Messenger: mercy421@xxxxxxxxxxx Skype: mercy0421 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nicki Keck" <favorite.blend@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, July 08, 2006 6:36 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] (no subject) HI all, I am looking to validate my first book, as I have been a member, but just got signed up as a validator. There are three books, any of which I would be happy to validate, but they are all in .ark format. I can read them; that's not the problem. I do have Openbook as my scanning software anyway. My question is: Can I edit these in Word and should I then change them back to .ark to be uploaded or could they be uploaded back in .rtf format? Obviously, I would and could only do one of these three; I know that, so I don't need that clarified. The reason I ask this is that I find Openbook to be a fine scanning program, but I find it cumbersome for editing with. The speech is just a bit more sluggish than JAWS by itself and I'd just rather use Word if I can, plus I find Word's spell checker easier to use, because I can read the context of where the error is found; whereas, with Openbook, this is not possible to my knowledge. Any answers on this would be appreciated. As I said, I can read the ark format, just would really like to not have to use the Openbook program itself to do the validation if I don't have to. Nicki www.nicksmix.net check out my show on ACB Radio Interactive on monday from 23-01 GMT. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.9.10/383 - Release Date: 7/7/2006 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.