If every hyphen is followed by a tab character, it sounds like the hyphens shouldn't be there. A quick find and replace should fix that, as long as you're sure they're consistently like that. Just select the hyphen and tab and paste it into the find and replace dialog, then replace it with nothing, and that should bring them together. Take care. Julie Morales inlovewithchrist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Windows/MSN Messenger (but not email): mercy0421@xxxxxxxxxxx Skype: mercy0421 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rose Combs" <rosecombs@xxxxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2005 11:22 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Validating Books OK, this is strange. I started a spell check on this book and every hyphen is followed by a tab character. This does not look fun. Rose Combs rosecombs@xxxxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rose Combs Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2005 10:58 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Validating Books I have a medical spell checker on my computer. My job is in the medical field and so I figured I'd be familiar with the terminology and also I have the ability to spell check, K1000 does not have a medical spell checker and that is annoying for me since all the stuff I have scanned in the past several months is definitely loaded with medical terms. Rose Combs rosecombs@xxxxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Julie Morales Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2005 9:44 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Validating Books What about a spell check? If there are a lot of medical terms, that may not help. If you take the .rtf file into Kurzweil and perform a ranked spelling, maybe that'll help, if you're not going to read the whole thing. That'll help give you a quicker glimpse of whether anything really should be fixed or not. As far as hyphens go, unless they're compound words that are supposed to be hyphenated, the common consensus, I believe, is to put them together, but with that large of a book, there's little wonder that you wouldn't want to read the whole thing! Take care. Julie Morales inlovewithchrist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Windows/MSN Messenger (but not email): mercy0421@xxxxxxxxxxx Skype: mercy0421 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rose Combs" <rosecombs@xxxxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2005 9:20 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Validating Books Yeah, I hate house work. Question, I am validating a larger project than I'd planned, Physical Examination for Health Assessment. All the copyright info is most definitely present. I converted this doc file to RTF immediately. My question is this, there are a lot of hyphenated words, and the hyphens appear to be properly placed, my guess they were done by the publisher, or else the submitter (no name shown) did a good job, I should leave these alone? It would read better aloud without them, but, this is about a 900 page document, I am not really inclined to remove them all. Any opinions? This book had a fair rating, although in the first few pages, I have not found anything other than those hyphens that could be questionable. Rose Combs rosecombs@xxxxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Cindy Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2005 9:03 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Validating Books - > It is the equivalent of whether my house is clean > enough for me and my > wife or for company. > Mike, That is an excellent analogy. I laughed, thinking of my house. I spend much more time cleaning up books for bookshare than I do on my house. smiling embarrassedly. Cindy ____________________________________________________ Yahoo! Sports Rekindle the Rivalries. Sign up for Fantasy Football http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com