I check around a bit and one place suggested re-installing Word... If that doesn't work the Microsoft site might... Rita Here is a link that might be useful: MS Help & Support

I have just loaded Outlook on a new notebook, Outlook 2002. I've used this version of Outlook since 2002, but alas that notebook did a big crash. The good news, I had all but the last two days of message folders on a back up drive, in a folder called "Exchange". Now, on my old XP home there was a folder called "OutlookFolders" which had "Exchange" and other details in it. So, all I need to do is copy the back-up data into the new computer's "OutlookFolders", but I can't find them, nor can the XP search. I do have folders maked to shoe hidden. Any help would be appreciated.

I do not have an answer but rather an observation. There *s h o u l d* be a way. But it depends how complex or expensive the solution might be. For example, I notice that my desktop at work gets synchronized with my home PC so all folders always have the same content. Now granted, people at work might have done a lot of things without telling me that makes this seamless, piece-of-cake looking to me. Your two mail programs are accessing mail files located in each pc and that is what makes them be not in sync. If pc1 could access the mail file in pc2 instead of the mail file in pc2, that would help. Or if both could access the mail file by storing it on an external hard drive, maybe that would help. Let's see if one of the gurus here can give some advice. I have a new pc that could need this feature.

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.