Well, go figure. I had seen "View" myself in trying to fix this. "Name" and "Auto Arrange" were checked so I thought that could not be the problem. But I just unchecked them--and now the alphabetizing is working again. A total mystery to me. Thank you for the suggestions. Helped hone in on the problem area.

Thanks ravencajun. I am bookmarking all these websites that allow large transfers. I used YouSendIt to send the exe file I was trying to send. So far, I have not heard from my friend as to whether the file was sent successfully or not. My provider will allow up to 10Meg emails......but they draw the line on any exe files....no matter how small. I will be trying these new ones....like YouSendIt or MailBigFile....to see if they allow exe files. I thank you for your response, raven. Larry

Add me to the list of the thankful! I do sooooo appreciate all the help I have received. I'm sure I will be asking for more in the future. XXXXX & OOOOO to all you helpers who are so willing to share your knowledge and expertise with us "dummies" (speaking for myself).

Thanks, both of you, for your suggestions. Saving the source formatting didn't help, so I tried "match destination formatting" instead. That did move the words out of the margins, but it left those margins much too large. Perhaps because the original files were in Courier, and Times New Roman is my default font in Word. But, if I change it back to Courier, all of the problems return. I also tried "keep text only," but it seemed to have the same results as "match destination formatting." I also clicked on the paragraph symbol that shows all the background stuff, and there appear to be a lot of dotted lines in these documents that I don't recall seeing in any of my regular Word documents. Is there any way to get rid of those? (As these files are already saved on my computer as text files, saving one again in Notepad didn't help.)