Hi Kim, You did the right replacement. However, you can keep from having to replace em dashes by hand by, yep, you guessed it, by using the find and replace dialogue. Are you using microsoft word? If so, and using Word 2003, here's how to replace em dashes with two hyphens. This replacement does need to be made, as bookshare's braille translator doesn't handle em dashes properly, interpreting them as it does as a hyphen. So, here goes with how to replace em dashes with two hyphens using the find and replace dialogue in microsoft word 2003. Place your cursor at the top of your document Open the find and replace dialogue by pressing control plus h (That is hold down the control key and press the letter h). In the find box type ^+ (That is shift the number six followed by the plus sign). Tab once so that you are in the replace box. Here type two hyphens Tab until you get to the "replace all" button, and hit enter. Word will tell you when it's done by announcing how many changes it has made. Save the changes to your document and continue happily proofreading. I hope this helps. Mayrie _____ From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kim Friedman Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 3:17 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] question I'm proofreading a book and have found something called an M-dash. What is it? I deleted it when I encountered it and just put in a regular dash, i.e., two hyphens. I hope that was correct. I'm thinking this book I'm proofing is going to take some work on my part. The scan is very good. I think everybody is correct when they say every new book to proofread brings its own challenges. Regards, Kim. P.S.: Maybe this is where I learn about the find-and-replace thing? I'm just correcting things as I read. K. __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4700 (20091218) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com