Scansoft likes to add spaces, but if you aren't using it there probably isn't anything else you can change to improve the spaces in words problem. Always use alt-E to get out of ranked spelling when you want to fix a word manually. After fixing press escape to get back in to ranked spelling. If you hit escape to get out of ranked spelling to fix something you will lose changes. When you have fixed some stuff use apply, and when finished use OK. Then remember to save the file, but I know you already knew that. :-) Sarah Van Oosterwijck Assistive Technology Trainer http://home.earthlink.net/~netentity