Man I so want to make a wheel of fortune joke about buying a vowel....moving on. Rachel if you could print one of these to a printer on a plain letter sized sheet of paper do they print, or are letters also dropped? If they do, I wonder if this is just on on screen display problem. My somewhat wild guess is that the line spacing in the original Word document is odd such that there isn't enough distance between the lines for the font to display correctly on screen and it is somehow coming into Draw. If they also don't print as well as don't display on screen I am stumped. And as sending it to the laser is akin to printing, I am probably in the stumped category. Others may have an idea, but some more info might help. Does changing the font change their display behavior? Does changing the font size up or down change their display behavior? Does Zooming in or out change anything? The next time you are copy and pasting from word and notice one of these vowel missing text segments. Try opening notepad, paste it there, copy from there and paste back into Draw. If this results in the vowels now showing, pasting into and out of notepad has stripped some formating from Word and giving you just plain text.