I have been a non contributor for too long. Thanks for letting me enjoy the great help you all have given. This may not be an outlook issue alone, it may be how you have your internet/OS set up as well. To fix these problems, try the following steps: => Control Panel => Internet Options => Connections Check the radio box to 'Never Dial a Connection' (This will stop ANY program or application from auto dialing) In Outlook, => Tools => Accounts => Mail Tab => Properties Button => Connect using my LAN (This option will mean that you have to manually connect to the Internet) To Stop Outlook from checking mail automatically: => Tools => Options => Mail Delivery Tab => Uncheck the 'Send messages immediately when connected' option => Uncheck the 'Check for new messages every ? minutes' option When you now open outlook, you will have to check the 'send/receive' button to manually check the email. Hope this helps and thanks to letting me participate Regards Shelley __________________________________________________ Yahoo! - We Remember 9-11: A tribute to the more than 3,000 lives lost http://dir.remember.yahoo.com/tribute ************************************************************* 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 *************************************************************