Dear Adrian, If you only KNEW how much work I have put into TRYING to "spruce up" the webpage during the last two months. My old computer went down on me the first of December and I had to spend all my savings just before Christmas to buy a new one. It has Word97 and I saw that it had a webpublishing program built in, with much more capbabilities than my old web publishing probram so I decided to try it. I have had nothing but problems so far. First, I purposely created all the files as "HTML" files with that extension. Then, I find that GeoCities' file manager cannot handle a file with more than 8 characters and when you start out as a HTML file, and you have 8 characters in the file name, that means their file manager counts "sasser.html" as 11 characters. Their file manger will change the name of your file and insert a "~" and a "1" in each of your files--then it tells you that it cannot find any such file name. Well, it took me almost two whole months to learn what was wrong. I had to spend more than a week changing all my file names from "html" to "htm" and then change all the links on every page to read "html"--because AFTER they are uploaded, the file names automatically become "html", so the links must be named that beforehand in order to work. Sound crazy?? YES! That is just PART of my problems. This darn NEW computer keeps changing my files. I have been trying to use tables so that I can have columns that make obituaries look like they would in a printed newsletter or newspaper. HOWEVER, over and over,for two months now, the computer keeps DELETING ALL of my obits. I go to the effort of typing them out, saving the page. Then when I reopen the page, all of the obits are gone. The rest of the page is OK. On other pages, the headlines and whole paragraphs CHANGE type size. I type out a page, save it, then when I reopen it, I find an entire paragraph has become size 14 or bigger and is boldened. The more I work on a page, the worse it becomes. Some pages become so corrupted, I just have to delete the entire page--over and over. I have been working about a week and a half now trying to type up a section on men who served in military units during the War, listing the names, company, regiment and rank. I discovered some time ago that you could type out something like this and than insert it with the <pre> command (for "preformatted") and the style would not be changed. But my darn computer CHANGES it EVERY time. The program is CHANGING the columns and jamming all the info together. It is CHANGING the text from Times Roman to "Courier New" and changing the size from normal 12 to 10. I NEVER use Courier text and I NEVER size 10. I have gone back and changed it manually from Courier to Times Roman several dozen times and corrected the size. No effect. I have deleted the whole page several times and started over again. No effect. I have raised cain with the manufacturer only to get an email back a week or so later saying "this is a software problem and not our problem". Microsoft says any software installed by the manufacturer is THEIR problem. After threatening to either take the darn thing back to the store and demanind my money back--or suing the manufacturer, they finally told me to completely restore my hard drive. I will lose everything on it and it will take quite a while to copy all the files I have on it. Not to mention a heck of a lot of disks to save it all on--more cost to me. I have spent literally hundreds of hours on this mess. I do have some fairly nice looking pages ready to upload. I will be switching from my present server, SwiftSite, to GeoCities because they offer four times as much space for one-fourth the cost. That will mean more work to change the URL address with all the search engines. I will try to get some of the files uploaded tonight and over the next few days. IF this darn computer would not change and delete what I do, I could already have had some nice looking stuff online two months ago. It really burns me up to watch all my work get lost on a NEW computer that I spent everything I had on. I bought it at CompUSA in Atlanta and that is a 260 round trip--or else I would have already taken it back. My old car can't be trusted again with that long a trip now. More later... Your cuz, Robert Earl