Hi Mark...and others. All those weird characters are inserted when freelists tries to convert your html mail to plain text....if you just convert it to plain text within your email program BEFORE you send it, it shouldn't happen. (And if you use mail with backgrounds and colors, freelists makes a real mess of it...and if you use something like Incredimail, it's almost unreadable by the time freelists gets done converting it) Freelists isn't as forgiving as yahoo....so, ya gotta clean it up before it leaves your house, so to speak. I also notice that if I send a fresh mail from here, I don't have those codes within my mails, but if I REPLY to one that has them, I sometimes do. So, if you aren't seeing it in ALL of your mails, odds are it's just happening when you reply to one that's already messy. Linda Publisher ~ ABC ~ All 'Bout Computers Owner ~ Linda's Computer Stop http://personal-computer-tutor.com FREE MS Office eBook Tutorial http://personal-computer-tutor.com/library.htm -----Original Message----- From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mark Mucher Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 11:52 AM To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [mso] Re: XL changing company name in headers! Another good answer! Now, why to they keep creeping in to my simple Outlook e-mails? (Could it be the way some lists convert html to text?) Thanks, Mark ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, send an email to mso-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?Subject=unsubscribe Or, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu. This will also allow you to change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles *************************************************************