Improvements and Changes make to MAKEE during 2007 -------------------------------------------------- Several improvements and changes were made to the MAKEE HIRES reduction program during 2007. MAKEE generally works well for a large set of observations with well-defined point sources with good point-spread-functions, and good calibration exposures. However, failures occur when the PSF is not well defined, the source is not centered in the slit window, the calibration files are not adequate (e.g. no bright point source exposure when the primary object is faint), or the setup is at the far red or blue limits of the normal operating conditions. MAKEE was originally optimized to extract isolated point sources of moderate brightness (V~=15-19) in optical wavelengths (4000 to 8000 Angstroms), but has been modified to extract a wider range of observations, including setups further to red and with fainter calibration point sources. In 2007, the wavelength calibration has been improved to work further in the red (up to 9800 Angstroms), and the "trace" finding routines can now work on fainter point sources. The "slit finding" routines have been improved which operate on the flat field and used to fail for extreme setup ranges. The cosmic-ray masking routines have been improved, which were failing in cases where the PSF was large or the slit length to small. In addition, MAKEE has been modified to create new ASCII tables of the output data (using the '-koa' option) for the flux and error spectra, trace solutions, spatial profiles, and wavelength calibrations. Work on MAKEE is ongoing, as more of the current failures are investigated. In some cases, code improvements may solve the problems, in others we may need to create extra calibration files, and there may be other cases which are not extractable.