It sounds like you might be pulling down regular in the font menus which removes all font formatting including italics. Hopefully it is easy like that. Another option could be your scanning software if you scan as plain text. Valerie On Oct 14, 2011, at 6:00 AM, Tim Syfert wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > As proofreaders, we are suppose to keep all italics in the book, right? > I have Word 2003 and when I set up a book for proofing, it takes all the > italics out. Does anyone know what could be set wrong? It's a real pain to > put them back in one page at a time. Thanks. Tim