Hi monica, If I'm not mistaken Gerald , as I do a global search and replace, in M S Word with a carrot w and replace with a space. That gets rid of the tab characters and replaces them with the single space. HTH Tom ----- Original Message ----- From: Monica Cortada To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Saturday, June 03, 2006 6:33 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Formatting Tabs or Spaces There were a few messages as while back about converting tabs to spaces because of Braille conversion errors with tabs. I think that was followed by comments about converting tabs to spaces and the resulting annoyance of all those extra spaces, and comments about whether converting tabs to double spacing between paragraphs is too substantial a change from the original document. If there was a resolution, I missed it and now I don't know what to do about the paragraph formatting in the book I'm currently working on. Monica in Maryland __________ NOD32 1.1576 (20060602) Information __________ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com