Barbara, I don't know of any reason why you can't put a tab at the beginning of the paragraph if you want, but it's not necessary if there are blank lines between the paragraphs. If you want to indent them and prefer to put spaces instead of tabs, then I'd say put something like 5 or 8, but I don't think it really matters as long as you're consistent. As far as I know, the Stripper ignores all white space in the file. I've never seen it cause problems to books which have a blank line between paragraphs and no indentation, and nearly all of the books I've submitted and validated have been that way. Gerald -----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Barbara J Wagreich Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 9:26 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: Barbara J Wagreich Subject: [bksvol-discuss] How many characters for paragraph indentations? Hi Listers: can anyone tell me how many characters the paragraph indentations are in Miscrosoft Word documents submitted to bookshare.org? I am editing books in text mode and would be able to put in the paragraph indentations, since I don't know how the stripper will treat bblank lines between paragraphs -- these paragraphs start at the beginning of a line with no paragraph indentations in text mode. Thanks! Barbara Wagreich