The small blue rectangles that I mentioned above have now paled in significance after I tried to convert my word document into a PDF... all of the formatting has gone haywire, overlapping or items disappearing completely! Not only this, my 1 MB newsletter became 10 MB as a PDF... what's going on, can somebody please help me here? This is the first newsletter that I have ever tried, as mentioned above, I used a template but I changed some of the text box shapes and areas for photos so that I could fit my own things in. I was left with those tiny blue rectangles here and there beneath areas of text, but now that I've seen what has happened to my layout when converted I think I need some urgent advice! Also, any info on how I can convert to a PDF without increasing the file size would be a massive help... many thanks in advance, cheers, John