Dixie & Debi: Debi, you are correct. It's just a matter of going to the subject line once a person starts composing a reply. By clicking for one of the actions available (will depend on the email browser; mine, Eudora, has REPLY, REPLY ALL, FORWARD, REDIRECT), then clicking in the Subject line, one can type whatever is required and delete out what is not required. To select the entire line, just put the mouse pointer at the beginning, hold down the left button, and drag the pointer all the way to the end. That will "highlight" the entire line, which can then be deleted by hitting the Delete key on the keyboard. But..... usually when replying one is still somewhere in the area of the original subject, and may want to indicate the original post was on a different subject. In that case, typing a new subject and enclosing part of the original in parens with "Was:" will do the trick. Example: (using Debi's reply as the example) Subject: How To Change Subject Line (Was: Surnames in Subject Line...) Or something like that. While we're on netiquette, how about everyone learning how to delete all of the original body except what is absolutely necessary? When replying it is not good netiquette to quote back ALL of the original post. All that's needed is just enough to let others know what is being replied to. Delete out all the rest and replace with something like (snip), (snipped), (deleted), or anything to show that there was something there originally. AND, for heaven's sake, delete out all the garbage like footers about how to unsubscribe, etc. Hope this helps, Sarge (BTW, I've been doing this since BEFORE there was an "Internet", back when we used Bulletin Boards, hubs, etc., from the DOS prompt. Right now I manage about 4 dozen Mailing Lists and about the same number of Message Boards.) At 12/26/2006 07:07 PM Tuesday, Debi wrote: *********START OF ORIGINAL MESSAGE TEXT********* >It's pretty basic is to change the subject line - just go to the subject >line, delete what is there for the current subject and put in what your >message encompasses. > >Debi > >(snip) **********END OF ORIGINAL MESSAGE TEXT***********