The reference was to control and page down being used simultaneously (ctrl+pgdn) Jake ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sarah Van Oosterwijck" <curiousentity@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2004 9:50 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Validating a txt document > Cindy, > Txt files don't retain any font information so italics, underline, and bold > characteristics can't be kept. I thought that I did get a file created in > notepad to retain m-dashes, but I tested that because I was thinking that it > couldn't. I didn't think there was an ascii character for m-dash. I think > it may very well depend on the type of txt file you create. Word can make > several kinds, so that should be investigated. If you can't possibly get > the txt files to keep m-dashes replace them with 2 single dashes, which is > less desirable than m-dashes, but far more accurate than a single dash with > or without spaces arround them. Finding the best kind of txt file should > also fix the problem of the pagebreaks disappearing. That certainly can be > fixed unless the Mac version of Word is really different. .:-) These > factors are what make rtf's more desirable than txt's. > > On another toppic, PageDown in Word only takes you to the next screen of > text not to the next page of the document or book. > > Sarah Van Oosterwijck > http://home.earthlink.net/~netentity > >