I wouldn't do that, but that's just me. Kurzweil can work with .rtf files, so I don't know a reason why you would want to save it as a .kes file, but maybe someone knows something I'm missing. Take care. Julie Morales inlovewithchrist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Windows/MSN Messenger (but not email): mercy0421@xxxxxxxxxxx ----- Original Message ----- From: "E." <thoth93@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 1:27 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: File format question Do you mean that when I validate a .rtf and have access to k1k I would do well to save it as a .kes after downloading and then, just prior to upload save the corrected kes to a rtf format for uploading? E.