Just remember that all em-dashes will be single dashes when you use scan soft. As long as that is the only character inaccurately represented, I guess fixing them isn't a big deal if your editing method gives you proper feedback about them. I only became furious because I was scanning something with the absolute record number of em-dashes in it because they were at the ends of sentences with a scripture reference. I was trying to edit with Dec-talk, which doesn't deal with em-dashes and what it did with those single dashes in that situation was even more bizarre and annoying. Sarah Van Oosterwijck http://home.earthlink.net/~netentity/