Hi Soniya, We will see what the rest of the group says but I found if I went a letter at a time the dash was not there and there was a blank space. It did not read as "space". I took them out in the one book I have found them in so far. Not sure what causes them. Kaitlyn Level III Practitioner Reconnective healing and the Reconnection Level 1 Reiki healing Kaitlyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take but by the number of moments that take your breath away:) -----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of soniya patel Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 2:37 PM To: bookshare volunteer Subject: [bksvol-discuss] the apple tree and other stories Hi. I am working on validating this book. I noticed that there were dashes in between words such as ex-ample or re-lection. Do I leave it this way or change it? Do I apply corrections with kurzweil? The rank spelling says 97 percent spelled correctly. Is this ok? If there are tab characters, do I replace with spaces or leave as is? Soniya Patel