Thanks Bushfiver, I may have complicated the issue as I had scanned, to a USB stick, a document in a .pdf format, (that is what my printer/scanner does), then converted it to .rtf, from the conversion I then copied and pasted a large piece of text, I ran into problems when I wanted to add text after the pasted piece using MSWord 7! Gave up and closed that document and started a new one without any problem. Got the hint when I tried to work on the same piece on a different computer with MSWord 10 and got the same problems, just a blue colour instead of red! Thanks again.