First, lets get clear on your steps to be sure we are on the same page. After you pasted the information into Notepad, did you re-select it in Notepad and do a fresh copy before pasting it into PAF? If not you would have been pasting the original data. As an aside, for anyone who does a lot of pasting into PAF, the freeware PureText does the same thing as running the data through Notepad, but it can be done in one step using a hotkey (such as Windows + V). It can be found here. http://www.stevemiller.net/puretext/ Gary Templeman ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kathy Campbell" <KatGCamp@bellsouth.net> To: <paf-5-users@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, May 20, 2011 12:55 PM Subject: Re: [PAF-5] Weird Error > It is very likely that you copied information that had some format > characters > included and was not pure text. These hidden characters may have been > the problem. If you are going to copy, you might copy to Notepad first and > look for any strange characters and delete them. Then copy from Notepad > to PAF 5. > > It may be that saving to a GEDCOM would have deleted these characters > too, or at least made them visible when viewed with a text editor. > > > > That's what I did - copied to Notepad and then to PAF, and it's always > worked before. I double checked, and there was nothing odd at all. > Kathy > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PAF-5-USERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message