AHA!!! That may be the issue. The only time we would wish to use the manual cheque function is where there is no vendor set up and we do not wish to set one up for the approx 100 one-time-only payments we made this week. It appears that cash invoice is the only way to make a cheque payable to non-vendors. We therefore had 100 cash invoices and 100 "scrunched-up" cheques. I take it then that I must create a separate cheque spec for manual (cash invoice) cheques?? Or can my existing spec be modified to work with both??? Thanks!!!!