Nicole, It sounds like you have opened a word file and it worked fine until you saved it. Now most of the time, Textedit will save word files just fine, but, some word files do not play nicely with TextEdit. If you have pages you mite be able to open the file with that. If not, I think I would try openOffice, or, Nisus writer from here, http://nisus.com/free/express.php About your mail problem, It may be something with your mail provider, or, weather you are using POP mail, or, Imap mail settings. Keith Reedy> > Click on the link below to go to our homepage. > http://www.icanworkthisthing.com > > Manage your subscription by using the web interface on the link below. > //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover > > Users can subscribe to this list by sending email to > macvoiceover-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > with 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Web > interface at //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover >