Zep..that fixed it! I am so happy, so thank you for the time you took to repy. WOW!!! My DH does not speak French or spell, so he'll be one happy guy now. Mikie, I didn't check your links because Zep's worked, but thank you too for taking time to reply. Merci beaucoup!!

try getting malwarebytes and update it then run full scan. Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware download Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware to your desktop. * Double-click mbam-setup.exe and follow the prompts to install the program. * At the end, be sure a checkmark is placed next to Update Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware and Launch Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware, then click Finish. * If an update is found, it will download and install the latest version. * Once the program has loaded, select Perform full scan, then click Scan. * When the scan is complete, click OK, then Show Results to view the results. * Be sure that everything is checked, and click Remove Selected. * When completed, a log will open in Notepad. Please save it to a convenient location. The log can also be found here: C:\Documents and Settings\Username\Application Data\Malwarebytes\Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware\Logs\log-date.txt * Please post the contents of that file in your next reply be sure you allow it to clean what it finds, you may need to reboot.

You need to add something to get OE6 to spell check. Word would do it you had it but there are free ones around. Here's a link to one: Spell check at major geeks.

Owbist: You beat me to it! I just wrote this all out - too good to delete - so I'll publish it anyway :-) Try this: Open Create Mail then click view > Toolbars > Check the Formatting bar. There should then be a formatting bar just at the top of the mssg pane you will be typing in. Now you should see B I U A for bold, Italic, Underline, Color. Now when you highlight a word just click on the A in the format bar to pick the color instead of thrashnig all the way thru the format maze..... If this formatting bar does not appear you are not in Rich Text format. You don't say if you are having this problem with newly created mail or when replying. If you go to the main window > Tools > Options > Send > then see if there is a check in the "Reply to mssg using same format in which they were sent". Uncheck that and see if it fixes you up. In other words if you relpy to a mssg recieved in HTML you have no choice but HTML formatting unless you uncheck as above.