Thanks for this, Christopher - you have really got me worried now! I just went to my account, switched to Basic View and activated the Settings link. I copied and paste below the message which appeared lower down the screen - "Mail Settings Settings can only be changed from Google Mail's standard view. Switch to standard view" I originally wondered whether it had something to do with using different screen readers, but that hardly seems likely. What worried me is that earlier this month I contributed an article on Google mail to an on line magazine and in it I gave the inability to change Settings from Basic View as a problem of which newcomers to Gmail needed to be aware. My credibility destroyed with one sentence! Douglas On 26 Jul 2007 at 8:45, Christopher Hallsworth wrote: > Douglas, I've just signed up today, and I can access the settings page > using the basic view, so this should work on your account too. > > -- Douglas Harrison ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq