Anahata - I'm not trying to get things to html. I am preparing the Digital Tradition, one version of which, several steps later, comes back to html. I want the DT to show legible characters so that all of you can see them straight in whatever form you view the DT. I will take a closer look at that screen that comes up when I convert to text - I have been just saying OK to what comes up.

John - I'll take a look at the quote thing on my Word template

Would I be better off working in Notepad than Word?

I'll be getting a new computer soon and thus switching from XP to Win7 (and DOSBOX, I guess), which may give me a different set of issues.