A GREAT idea from Ancestry. This works great and is fast and easy. Sure does make reading forwarded messages easier and takes less room. Ivan Ancestry Daily News, Weekly Digest Version http://www.ancestry.com/DailyNews Brought to you by the publishers of "The Source" and "Ancestry" Magazine http://www.ancestry.com For the week ending 24 June 2000 "QUICK E-MAIL CLEANUP To clean up all of those >>>s that show up when a message has been forwarded several times, what I normally do is copy the message, including all the greater than symbols (>>>), and paste it into my word processor. Then I go into the Find/Replace function (found in the "Edit" menu). I tell it to find > and replace it with NOTHING (not the word, just leave the "Replace With" field blank). Then tell it to go to work. After that, I manually reformat the document the way I like it, copy the whole thing, paste it into an e-mail, and send the critter. I like to use programs with which I am familiar, so it becomes almost automatic for me. L8r, Sarge aka Gus"