Hi Julia, The long dash, or M-dash, is made y shift 6, which is the karet sign, followed by the plus sign. Using that, you can get all of them doing a search and replace. Sue S. ----- Original Message ----- From: Julia To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 8:51 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] non keyboard character help please Hi List. I'm working on a book and I need to know how to make a long dash, in order to replace it with two dashes. I got some of them when proofing but I forgot to replace them for part of the book. Kellie gave me this great file that has nonkeyboard characters in it, and I think the long dash is one of them, but now jaws twelve won't read some of them. Any help would be greatly appreciated. thanks, Julia ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 10.0.1191 / Virus Database: 1435/3373 - Release Date: 01/11/11