No Niel it can't be as it's the wife and she never installs anything at all unless it would be a update auto! I think I caused this when I copied the y address book from her computer to a lap-top which she can carry with her when doing research?? That's what is bothering me! Thanks Gene Gene, It will be an app or an add-in that doesn't know how to correctly work with Outlook. Have you started using a PDA with Outlook recently? Or installed any Outlook Add-Ins? Regards ____________________________________ Neil Atwood - Sydney, Australia ************************************************************* 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). http://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 *************************************************************