Hi Tom, I'll chip in here. When you start a document, you will usually have selected a Template, such as you mention below. If you then go to DBT's Document menu, and select Translation Tables, one of the list will be ticked. In this case it will be "English/American". This being the case, when you apply DBT's Spanish Style to a word or phrase, it will apply Spanish Rules per BANA. George. ________________________________ From: duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tom Whalen Sent: 13 June 2006 21:43 To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [duxuser] Re: Spanish as a Secondary language in DBT Thanks for replying Neal, but I'm more confused now than ever. I usually open a Spanish word document in Duxbury with the English (American) Standard Literary Format template. Our documents often contain English, so I highlight the Spanish text and apply the Spanish style, which I though uncontracts it.. Is this correct? How do I know what translation table I'm using. Thanks again, Tom Neal Kuniansky <Neal@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Hi Tom: When you apply a Spanish style in DBT, you will get Spanish as the authority of the translation table you are using says it should be done. so if you are using a BRITISH ENGLISH TRANSLATION TABLE, the Spanish will be according to BAUK. If you are choosing a BANA ENGLISH Translation table then you would get Spanish according to BANA. and so it goes. For more information in DBT WIN 10.5 you can go to HELP>HELP TOPICS>LANGUAGE TRANSLATION TABLES, then look up the language of the translation table you are using. Pay particular attention to the SECONDAY LANGUAGE SUPPORT section. Hope this helps, Neal __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com