I think it's going to be nearly impossible to satisfy everyone. I would hope that text quality would come before the page break issue. One confusing thing about page breaks too is that depending on the program used, some people don't even see them and might mistakenly believe that a book has no page breaks. I agree that page breaks are more crucial in textbooks, and really not at all in novels and the like. But here's a thought. Wouldn't it be possible to create a program that wouold work along the same line as a header stripper, only it would go through and insert pagebreaks if there weren't any? Or maybe there is such a program out there somewhere? Pam