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 -----Original Message----- From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On = Behalf Of vic Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 10:52 AM To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [mso] Re: XL changing company name in headers! Don't use excel but I can tell you that 3D is the equal sign in = hexadecimal. 3D and =3D are the same. Don't know if that relates but often when = there's a character recognition problem in email, hex characters appear. ie 20 is = a common one and that's hex for a space. vic http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WinTips-Tricks/ ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Mark Mucher=20 To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx=20 Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 9:31 AM Subject: [mso] Re: XL changing company name in headers! Good advice - so what puts the =3D3D in your (and some of my) e-mails? Mark -----Original Message----- From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On = =3D Behalf Of Colli, Anthony G Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 9:08 AM To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [mso] Re: XL changing company name in headers! April- You might try S && D. '&' is the concatenation operator so Excel = thinks =3D =3D3D your asking for S and then the date. && will usually escape the =3D3D concatenation. -Anthony -----Original Message----- From: April Pace [mailto:4office@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 11:49 PM To: Office (E-mail) Subject: [mso] XL changing company name in headers! Help... Can somebody help me with a good work around for this... I = have =3D =3D3D a client who's company name is S&D... when we try to add this to a = header =3D =3D3D in XL 2000 it constantly changes it to S01/28/02 (or some date =3D3D =3D variation)... Any idea's?? --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.449 / Virus Database: 251 - Release Date: 1/27/2003 =3D20 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.449 / Virus Database: 251 - Release Date: 1/27/2003 =20 ************************************************************* 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 *************************************************************