Well, I am not using the right characters for the 'OXLSO' name. These characters had tick marks above the letters. Neil, do you have a couple minutes? If you don't mind, please go to this URL: http://aroundcny.com/technofile/texts/giz102903.html It is a genealogy page. Fairly close to the bottom you will see the original characters to this. The paragraph starts with: I have some genealogy pals that have put their genealogy data into an Excel.... and the next line contained a mention of that format. It says: Do you know of a way to convert blah blah. I am just wondering what the heck that format is! If you don't have time or would rather not fool with this, don't. As for my email client causing those, I think I know why. It shouldn't happen again. Thank you. Robert ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, send an email to mso-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" (without the quotes) in the subject line. Or, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu. This will also allow you to change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles *************************************************************