Hi Larry, If you set your email program to recieve in plain text, the attachments will be seperate. It is safer too, you don't automaticaly open/activate infected email. Just highlight all the text 'Ctrl + A' keys, and save it 'Ctrl + C'. Paste 'Ctrl +V' it into Notepad and save it with whatever name you wish to a folder. I think you are using OE, so if highlight the text and go to 'File'> 'Save'> you can choose from any folder on your hard drive, I think it defaults to "My Documents" on C drive. Seasons Greetings ~ My Christmas card http://www3.telus.net/mikebike/mikesxmas_2002.htm Mike ~ It is a good day if I learned something new. Editor MikesWhatsNews see ~ http://www.mwn.ca Updated Tonight with HackFix AV Updates <mikeswhatsnews-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?Subject=subscribe> See my Anti-Virus pages ~ http://virusinfo.hackfix.org A Technical Support Alliance Charter Member *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 19/12/2002 at 8:57 PM larry wrote: I receive a number of messages containing rather large jpg files. Sometimes they contain texts which I would like to keep after seeing the jpg files. Is it possible to remove the attachment but keep the original text of the message? Larry ~*~*~*~*~ Was this forwarded to you? Want to subscribe? Send an email to 1stpickpchelp-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?Subject=subscribe. For a complete list of email commands for our list send an email to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with a subject of "info 1stpickpchelp" without the quotes. If you wish to unsubscribe from our list send an email to 1stpickpchelp-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?Subject=unsubscribe To contact the list moderators send an email to 1stpickpchelp-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ~*~*~*~*~