I hope maybe someone can help me. I mentioned having extra blank pages in Tar Baby, the book I am attempting to validate in openbook. I then mentioned that the person who scanned the book scanned a number of the pages with column recognition on, but not in two-page mode. I was able to find the places where almost all of the page breaks should occur and added them appropriately. I was missing only three page breaks. I removed all headers, put page numbers at the top with a return before and after each page number, and I put a return at the bottom of every page. When I completed the validating, the openbook file had three hundred and sixteen pages. When I saved the ark file as a .rtf file, the file has 354 pages. It seems like some of the pages have inserted an extra page where I added the return at the bottom of the page, but that is not true on every page, obviously. I did not have this problem when I validated my first book. Can anyone give me any idea how to resolve this problem. I have not done any elaborate editing in word, and I relied on Openbook to edit properly. Any help would be appreciated. Cat Lover Lori