Yeah...In Office XP, he shouldn't be there by default...to get rid of him, just right click on him and go to Options...in there Uncheck the box that says "Use the Office Assistant"....he's still alive and well in Office XP, but should NOT have been turned on by default. I'm thinking maybe you need to uninstall Office, run the Office 2000 eraser utilities, then reinstall Office XP There are instructions on my Office page for COMPLETELY removing Office 2000: http://www.personal-computer-tutor.com/office.htm Scroll down til you see the section on Erasers. Good luck!! Linda Publisher ~ ABC ~ All 'Bout Computers Owner ~ Linda's Computer Stop http://personal-computer-tutor.com FREE MS Office eBook Tutorial http://personal-computer-tutor.com/library.htm -----Original Message----- From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Elise Miller Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 12:16 PM To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [mso] Re: Outlook questions I actually didn't have to turn it on, I had just gone there to verify that it was in fact on. Now that it's working in plain text but not HTML, I'm pretty sure it's on, I'm just a little freaked out by the selective functioning. Another issue which may or may not be related to this is that I installed Office XP and that's how I got Outlook 2002 on here. But I still had that annoying paperclip office assistant from version 2000 every time I checked the Help. That's not right, is it? So perhaps what I really need to do is just blow it off my system and start over. ************************************************************* 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?Subject=unsubscribe 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 *************************************************************