that could be...in one file in particular, I don't recall using any bolding, but why would bolding, or some other rich text element translate as this: pardtx720tx1440tx2160tx2880tx3600tx4320tx5040tx5760tx6480tx7200tx7920tx8 640qlqnatural cf0 I mean, that is a LOT of characters! maybe "tx" means text, and I see a pattern of doubling of some of the numbers, but what actually is that stuff? n On Mar 11, 2008, at 12:17 PM, Norman Cohen wrote: > It could be that these have text formatting. If you bold face, use > italics, color the text, etc textedit saves the file in "rich text > format" or rtf for short. Without having seen the file, that's what > it sounds like to me. > > Norm > Sent wirelessly via BlackBerry from T-Mobile.