For the first time I'm validating a txt document and leaving it as it is, i.e., I let it save as a txt document after making changes in a different font. The one time I did a txt before, I'd converted it to Word, did the whole thing in Word, saved as it an rtf document, then found I couldn't upload it as rtf so I converted back to txt and noticed that all the line breaks disappeared --but Ididn't notice anything else. Now, following someones's advice (Kelley? Donna? Jana? sorry I don't remember who), I saved what I'd done and reopened to see what it looked like. I found that not only are the page breaks not saved, (which is o.k. because I can put a line space on either side of the page number and note in the long synopsis that the page number appears at the bottom of each page) but the em dashes don' t appear as em dashes, at least to my eyes; they just look like regular dashes (the document reverts to Courier New 10). Will they be em dashes when bookshare converts the file to BRF and Daisy or whatever bookshare does with books? This time I left a space om either side of the dash so they don't look like hyphens, anyway. The text file had nothing where the em dash belongs, not even a regular dash, but it did retain the mark when I closed. Also, the italicized words weren't retained as italicized. Will they be italicized when bookshare converts the file to a different form? Evenif Ic an't see them as that in the txt file, will they be emphasized by an audio reader, or shouldn't I bother italicizing? I've noticed in the past, when I read to myself, that the structure of the sentence often causes one to emphasize words which are italicized, which is what causes me to check the book and see that the word needs to be italicized. I've download another txt book also to validate (both are marked Fair),so I need instructions as to how to handle them. Up till now I've only done rtf documents, which are just like Word. Thanks for your advice. Cindy _______________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Shop for Back-to-School deals on Yahoo! Shopping. http://shopping.yahoo.com/backtoschool