>>>From: Nathan Brindle <[log in to unmask]> >>>Plain text (ASCII) is done last because it requires the most hand-formatting. [snip] >>>You're right, it's MS Word 6. This is not new Word 6 has a wonderful menu item called "save as ms-dos text with line breaks". No formatting required. You get plain text with three mouse clicks. I think Word even suggests a ".txt" filename, but you may have to type that. This will insert hard linefeeds everywhere there was a soft line break (wrapping) in Word, and it will leave tabs as tabs. Some columns will look ugly, but that is also easily fixed by constraining yourself to fixed-spacing tabs (measured in terms of the fixed-pitch font you are of course using). Hope this helps. I figured it out while publishing a newsletter via hardcopy, email, and postscript on the web (use any postscript printer in Windoze, but print to disk and delete the "^D" character at the top and bottom of the file). The postscript version can be viewed by any EPS-aware browser, or downloaded with FTP and read by the (FREE) ghostscript viewer. Amazingly good quality. SRE * * * - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * * * * Eckert Enterprises Steve Eckert [log in to unmask] * * * * - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * * * * ftp: 192.100.81.1 415-508-0500 fax: 415-508-0501 * * * * - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * * * 1814 Oak Knoll Drive, Belmont California 94002-1753 (USA)