Hi Andrew, a bigger monitor?! you're not wrong there! i was hoping for a larger monitor, it's not that much to ask but.. it seems no extra monitor was brought in anyway! infact, I'm borrowing someone elses desk, only to move elsewhere in the room next week. ii've been told it's part and parcel of office life. As for the sound card issue; I was lucky! lucky that the sound card wasn't disabled. we had a job to find the headphone jack to plug in the headphones until the boss decided to look at someone elses computer set up. fortunately it's at the front of the work station and no need to go to the back of the computer. that would be difficult given the layout of the desk and it's untidiness. well, this should be the last of my poster designing projects. I'm sure they can give me less visual based work to do, he says. Justin > ** 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 ** 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