Shelley I use find and replace Ctr + F to get rid of that kind of junk, for example when editing Harry Potter y el cáliz de fuego in Spanish, the interrogation marks at the beginning of the questions were recognized as \ dashes followed by a comma with find and replace I replace those nasty critters. But if the junk is not part of the punctuation marks or is garbled text, well I would like that Sarah or Guido give us some more pointers. Very truly yours Dilsia A. Martinez Rivera Villalba PR From: "Shelley L. Rhodes" <juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Need some pointers! Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 00:35:38 -0400 How do you search for junk characters using K 1000? Things like ^* and the like, as these are usually my curses. And the ever popular bullet that The Braillenote calls character 34580. smile. How can I search and replace these? Shelley L. Rhodes and Judson, guiding golden juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx Guide Dogs For the Blind Inc. Graduate Advisory Council www.guidedogs.com If a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. -- Edgar Watson Howe