Don You probably have received a ton of responses to your posting problem. Here's another. Try composing on Note Pad and follow this with your "copy/paste" routine. Most internetwork mails will handle ASCII text only and this may not recognize some of the formatting characteristics of a word processor like MS Word. The result can be some strange looking text.Note Pad is a text writer that uses ASCII so you sort of see what you'll get at the other end. Don H