Thanks Judy for that bit of information but the first lines of the pages are text and I just inserted a blank line just before the test begins so that the page now looks like this: blank line text of page blank line page number blank line page break Hopefully this will do but if not I am not that far gone in the book that I can't go back and change it. *smile* Netta "Just because you are blind does not mean you lack vision"-Stevie Wonder