I don't know if you remember me saying that I was scared to set mso to quoteprintable at freelists cuz I thought that would allow html...and now I remember why When I first did my newsletter at freelists, I ended up with a LOT of them weird equal signs in it cuz I was playing with a lot of symbols to make dividing lines in the newsletter that looked pretty (it's a plain text newsletter and I was trying to dress it up) and I wrote to John Madden and he told me to make some changes in the format in that "mime" setting and it worked...I no longer get any weird symbols when I send ABC...so, I went and checked all the settings in that mime section and now I remember that he had me turn on html....for the newsletter, it's not a problem cuz I'm the only one sending it...but I don't want to turn on html in mso cuz people could be sending all kinds of "colorful" mail LOL So, since turning on quoteprintable didn't stop the equal signs in mso, I have to assume the html setting is the one I would have to change...and I ain't....so we will have to live with the equal signs I guess...and if any of the members want to turn them off, I will just point them to your article and they can make the registry change. Linda F. Johnson, M.A., MOS Linda's Computer Stop http://personal-computer-tutor.com <http://personal-computer-tutor.com/> Free e-Books, Newsletter, and tutorials