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     The &quot;Undo&quot; button will undo the last redundancy deletion.</em></li>
   <li><strong>Pad Gaps<br>
     </strong><em>When selected, the alignment will be kept at minimal
-    width (no empty columns before or after the first or last aligned
-    residue). This is useful when making a tree using unaligned
+    width (so there no empty columns before or after the first or last aligned
+    residue) and all sequences will be padded with gap characters to
+    the before and after their terminating residues.<br>
+    This switch is useful when making a tree using unaligned
     sequences and when working with alignment analysis programs which
     require 'properly aligned sequences' to be all the same length.<br>
-    You may set the default gap character in <a href="../features/preferences.html">preferences</a>. 
+    You may set the default for <strong>Pad Gaps</strong> in the <a href="../features/preferences.html">preferences</a>. 
     </em></li>
 </ul>
   <blockquote>&nbsp;</blockquote>