Hi Paula Warren had some very good suggestions. Here's another idea. I encountered the same thing when I did a little alphabet card for my niece. First, the semicolon is actually dots 5-6 and is a letter sign. To get rid of that, put the translation code for computer braille at the beginning of the file. I haven't tried the hard space thing, but that might work. I would simply add the spaces back into the braille file if it's a simple document. Warren's suggestion is likely more correct if it works, though. Jean