Scott, What version of Open book are you running? I have this same problem occasionally with Open Book 5.0 as well. What I do to fix it is close all of open book, re open it, go into the ark file again and save under a completely different file name as an RTF. A pain, but it usually works. Natasha & Fossey Guidingpaws@xxxxxxxxxxx CR: Blind Descent by Nevada Barr For my book reviews: http://www.livejournal.com/users/guidingpaws/