Hello Andy, I thank you much for your offline help. I have found the problem, but have no idea with my first original code masking does not work. I just post my findings. Take a look and give your import. Also on the not of Olin and the reply email address. It is standard business practice to have a reply email to you dev team and customers and other known people when you send email. Most of the time it is a two way message, hence the efficiency of just hitting reply. I personally think that Olin is unreasonable in asking people who post to this mail list to go in and change remove their must wanted reply address. Any, take a look at my last posting. Regards, James -- http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! email listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body