Hmmm...I'll have to see if I have OCR on here. I see MS uses scansoft which I have on my scanner, so maybe I do. I don't think the newspaper in WY was ever organised enough to get everything to electronic files. The ones I sent by email will have long ago been purged esp. as my editor/mentor died several years ago and the paper was bought out and changed for the worse and it was never that great anyway, but the only statewide one in WY, so lots of readership, plus it led to my column being reprinted in a national paper. Thanks for the ideas! I will call the paper, regardless.