When you said the problems appear and disappear without a change of settings, I wonder Many of these programs (esp. MS I am finding) reset to the default settings when a machine is turned off or powered down. Thus, when you turn it back on the settings have returned to the default and are no longer where you may have individually set them. Just another guess?? don't forget how to laugh (and do it often) Marling McReynolds 49/3 [log in to unmask] http://members.tripod.com/~marling