Hi Kasondra, Pallavi said that there's an option to remove end-of-line hyphens on the OCR program that we run inhouse. I have no idea if that option was turned on when I ran the OCR program on the Oxford Companion. Let me rerun the OCR program on the .tif file tomorrow, when I go into the office, and I'll see if they've been removed. If they have, I'll email you the new .rtf file and you can proofread it, instead of the one you have now. If not, well, removing hyphens from 1000 pages is not my idea of a good time, and requesting you to do so is entirely unreasonable, IMHO. Does that sound like a plan to you? Carrie Kasondra payne <Kassyp36@xxxxxxx> wrote: Hi, I just downloaded this book. I think Carrie submitted it. The scan I great. I?ve found no real spelling errors at all. However at the end of most lines the last word is hyphenated when it doesn?t have to be. I tried to get the find and replace to recognize this, but it doesn?t. Is there a more automatic way of getting rid of this than doing it by hand? It is an RTF file, and I am using MSWORD 2003. Please help! Kasondra Payne -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.9.5/58 - Release Date: 7/25/2005 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com