Thanks Marie, Yusuf and Ian, I have tried your suggestions with no results. It is really not important that I read this except I can't understand why there are pictures in an attachment on my computer and not on my wife's laptop. I will get her to look at my screen upstairs and check further. As I said my thanks to all. Ron ----- Original Message ----- From: Marie Baisez To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 8:54 PM Subject: [access-uk] Re: O E messages In the view menu, check that the text is set to west European window, if it still won't read, the text might be Unicode, try that and you should hopefully get it read. Cheers now, Marie ----- Original Message ----- From: Ron Sears To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 5:45 PM Subject: [access-uk] O E messages Hello, can anyone tell me how to solve this problem. I received a message which should have some text ;on it. There appears to be an attachment which says IMG and JPG. Okay so its a photo. I forwarded it to my wife's laptop and the text is there for all to see and read. She copied the text and sent it back to me but it is still not there. I am using JFW 10 on a del desktop computer. Cheers Ron __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 5355 (20100810) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com