Cindy, It's also possible that since they were Optional hyphens that the spell checker ignored them. Gerald -----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Cindy Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 3:49 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: mystery dash It's possible that the split words were compound words. Therefore, each half of the word would be a genuine word by itself and so the spell checker wouldn't find it mis-spelled -- whereas if a word like cor pulent were split, the spell-checker probably would catch it (he word comes to mind because I've been reading about Henry VIII) CIndy --- Tracy Carcione <carcione@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Oddly enough, Spellchecker did not find the split > words. > Tracy > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com