Hi Francis, I just did it but then a strange thing happened. The words "draw auto shapes" showed up in my task bar. Before I went nuts I rebooted and now everything is normal. Do you have any idea about what happened to my document? This is a real puzzlement and I'm wondering if these things happen to documents that just sit in the computer. Thanks, Judith ----- Original Message ----- From: Francis Daniels To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2005 12:00 AM Subject: Re: status bar Hi Judith, Press Alt V to open the view menu. Press down arrow to Toolbars. Press right arrow to open the sub menu. Press down arrow through the list. You should see: Standard as well as Formatting. Those two will be checked, meaning they are active. Press down arrow to see if anything else is checked. If they are, press enter to turn each item off. When pressing enter, you will activate or de-activate the function, and you will leave the menu. You will have to press Alt V, get to Toolbars, and proceed through the list for anything else. This happened to me once, in which the Web Tools toolbar was turned on and I was wondering why I was getting this stuff on the screen along with my text. Let us know if this helped. Francis