Hi Monica, If you have Kurzweil, you might want to consider using it for validating. It doesn't eat page breaks in txt files, which Word and Wordpad both will do except under specific conditions. 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.