Thanks, Doug. Now that you mention it I do recall that, when I was creating this message in Word (for convenience only), I did notice that when I typed the dash it was temporarily underlined in red but it cleared quickly. I'll know in future to take remedial action! Bob On 10-Jan-09, at 7:13 AM, Doug Bale wrote: > You're propably creating proper typographical dashes, Bob, and they're > part of the extended character set that Mail and many other e-mail > programs can't recognize. Allee same like accented French or Czech > characters, or properly typed curly quotes; they just come through as > garble. > --- MUGLO information at <http://www.freewebs.com/muglo> Manage your account options at <//www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/lsg2.cgi>