Cindy, here is what you need at the beginning of a page if the page number is at the top: 1. page number at the very top line, optionally followed by a space character. 2. A completely blank line just below the page number. If the page number appears at the bottom of the page you need the following instead: 1. A blank line on the second last line of the page. 2. The page number on the very bottom line of the page, optionally followed by a space character. Hope this helps, Guido Guido D. Corona IBM Accessibility Center, Austin Tx. IBM Research, Phone: (512) 838-9735 Email: guidoc@xxxxxxxxxxx Visit my weekly Accessibility WebLog at: http://www-3.ibm.com/able/weblog/corona_weblog.html Cindy R <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx> Sent by: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 06/22/2004 06:30 PM Please respond to bksvol-discuss To bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx cc Subject [bksvol-discuss] blank line at beginning of page Guido, I'm not quite sure what you meant below. I *want* the stripper to ignore the page number, right? What I thought I understood from posts a while back was to put page number on first line, then space, then body of page. If the page number is at the bottom, I do what you said recently -- skip a line after the text and then put page number and then a page break. Cindy <Cindy, you should leave a blank line after the page <number, or the <stripper will ignore the page number. <Guido __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com