Hi Carol >I have Outlook 2002 (and mine's an OEM version of MS Office). Ok I am surprised more up-to-date versions of outlook are less up-to-date! Surly one would expect outlook 2002 to keep, and or, improve on, what was available with earlier versions. Regards, Derek e-mail: derek.hornby_uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ** Going on holiday and want to halt messages? Send a message to:- ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** vacation ## d ** where ## is the number of days followed by d for days. ** For other things like digest mode, send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq