Thanks so much for this information, David; it's very helpful. My volunteer reports that when he went back and tried again, this time everything was fine -- so it could well be that he had mistakenly given the wrong filename :-) Thanks again to Jeff and David for their help. I really appreciate it. -- Nowl David Lang wrote on Tue, 4 Nov 2008: >BMDVerify uses either Times New Roman or Courier New when it displays the >transcription. >The actual one used depends on the year - as a rough rule Times New Roman is >used for indexes between 1866Q1 and 1910Q2, otherwise Courier New. > >You can also get the orange box full of strange symbols if when you are >asked to specify the name of the file containing your transcription, you >give it the name of the file containing the image of the scan - but if you >do this you will almost certainly get other warnings.