The word you're hearing may in fact be "par" rather than "bar". Occasionally when saving in rtf from open book I'll get this preceded by a / at the end of every line. I've also read several books on bookshare with the /par/ at the end of every line. Many of the Nero Wolf mysteries for example. The only solution I've found to this is to save as a .doc file then open in word or WordPad and resave as .rtf. Seems to be one of those .ark to .rtf within particularly open book 5 glitches. If someone knows of a better solution (other than upgrading my OCR which isn't an option for a while) please do enlighten me. Natasha & Fossey "Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it's not all mixed up." - A. A. Milne Did You Know: It took Noah Webster 36 years to write his first dictionary. email: guidingpaws@xxxxxxxxxxx MSN: sensei_9@xxxxxxxxxxx AIM: GdngPaws