Hi Jim and Trace, Are you both sure that IE8 and your email client are set as default? Just to ensure that this is the case: 1. Press 'Windows Key' and type 'default programs' in the edit box and press enter; 2. In Control Panel, tab down to 'Set Your Default Programs' and press enter; 3. In the list box, arrow down until you get to 'Internet Explorer', then tab to 'Set This Program As Default' and press enter on that; 4. Shift tab back to the list box and choose your email client, i.e. Outlook or Windows Live Mail etc, then tab to the 'Set This Program As Default' and press enter on it; 5. Click 'OK', and then close the Control Panel window; 6. Reboot and check the options in the 'file menu'. Hope this works for you. John. From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jim Doherty Sent: 24 March 2012 20:00 To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] I.E. 8 problem Hi, Whenever I go to a web site and I want to send the link to a friend, I use the file menu then cursor down to send to and cursor right then to send link by email. However, this says unavailable and then i can only send the link by selecting it from the address bar. Any idea why this is happening and how do I fix it. Hope someone on the list can tell me. Thanks in advance, bye the way i am running it as administrator. Jim