Hi Paul and all My spell check in outlook express has ceased to be. When I go to send an email it says it the spell check on this document was halted but do I want to send it anyway. Does anyone know what is stopping it? This has only happened in the last few days. I incidently installed powerpoint on my pc the other day and its throwing some funny messages at me too. Any conection do you think. So folks you'll have to excuse my spelling errors. I think I've not done too bad on this email. Edel..