Perhaps putting chapter headings down several line spaces rather than just a couple would preserve them. We were told at one point that the automated stripper would only delete the lines that kept being the same and that if there were a page number (which we were told to put at the top of the page, then skip a line and then put the text) that differed each page then the headings wouldn't be stripped. If they're being stripped anyway, are the page numbers being stripped, too? I agree with the person who said that she manually deletes, as she validates, the chapter and book title headings that are on the pages subsequent to the first page of the chapter. Cindy __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/