Hi Evan, Maybe Openbook and Kurzweil behave differently in the matter of column detection. I've found that for me the best thing is to usually have column detection on, and the setting called keep partial columns off. That way I get the least annoying inappropriately-placed hyphens. Kellie 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.