Thanks for this info. Indeed, Outlook is sometimes so frustrating I do feel like "wacking" the space bar. -----Original Message----- From: bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Jeff - The Ultra Guy Sent: May 14, 2005 8:32 PM To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bookport] Re: Equals signs (was Testing Email, please ignore) Ok, I don't use Outlook, but my wife does use Outlook 2000, so I looked to see how to do this in that version. I suspect this will be close for other recent versions of Outlook. 1. Choose Options from the Tools menu. 2. CTRL-TAB twice to the Mail Format tab. 3. Make sure that the first item is set to send email in plain text. 4. Tab twice to the settings button and whack the space bar. 5. Tab once to the second item and make sure the "Encode text using" option is set to None. 6. Dismiss the dialog boxes with the OK button. This should get rid of the equals signs in your emails. Jeff ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sarah Cranston" <cranston.sarah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 6:07 AM This is for Outlook Express. I haven't found the equivalent fix in MS = Outlook 2000. -----Original Message----- From: bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Jeff - The Ultra Guy Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 11:50 PM To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bookport] Re: Testing Email, please ignore This is the reason some of you have equals signs in your plain text=20 messages: Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable To fix this, go to the Send tab in the OE property sheet where you=20 choose whether to send messages in plain text or html. You will see=20 associated with each option a settings button. Click the plain text=20 settings button and make sure the "Encode text using" combo box is set=20 to none. It's probably set to quoted printable. Jeff UltraHost.US now offers Windows Web hosting! http://www.UltraHost.US/