Enable column recognition mode. That should help. I use the opticbook in two page mode, and have no problems. Shannon Women will starve in silence until new stories are created which confer on them the power of naming themselves. ----- Original Message ----- From: Julia To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 8:22 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] two page mode with opticbook Hi, I don't know about you, but I can't seem to get very good resalts when I use the opticbook in two page mode. It seems to make more mistakes. Is there a setting I need to change, so far I have the first setting in Kurzweil's recognition settings disabled I think its something like collomn mode. Any help would be appriciated. thanks, Julia