KatM

Are you using spaces to "line up" the columns in your text file? If you can, try to separate your columns with tabs. (I don't know what your data looks like, but you may be able to do a search and replace to do this.) Once the data is brought over to Word, the tabs will be very easy to line up - or can easily be converted into a table.

I receive documents that are created by someone else (and I do not know what version docs are created with). Occasionaly we receive a document that appears as follows in Word2003: { REF _Ref93908553 \h } which appears correctly as "Fig. 1" when the field codes are toggled. But when the document is opened in Word2000: { REF _Ref93908553 \h } is still the field code, but "Error! Reference source not found." appears in the document (The text of "Fig. 1" which is really what we want, but it is lost.) I know that as long as we stay in Word2003 I will be able to see the text desired - but we are primarily working with Word2000 and I need to know why we are getting the error with Word2000. It seems as though the field of "REF" is valid in Word2000 so I don't know why this won't work. Thanks.