Nah, they don't matter at all. Don't worry about them. The Stripper doesn't deal with margins. The Bookshare software just ignores them. I'm not even sure whether they carry over into the rtf file from the Word file. That is, if you are working in Word's native doc format. But even if the margins do carry over, it doesn't matter. The Bookshare processing will take no account of them. This does have its downside, as Grandma Cindy can tell you, for something like poetry where line formatting can be important. But in your case, it will save you unnecessary work to just forget about the margins. Evan ----- Original Message ----- From: Cindy Reece To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:45 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] The Stripper A question about the stripper. I'm validating a book (non fiction) and in my Word document the margins are all over the place. Do I need to be sure all of the paragraphs line up, or does the stripper do this? Cindy Reece ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Windows Live Hotmail now works up to 70% faster. Sign up today.