On Thursday, July 10, 2003, at 08:45 am, cricket wrote: > This has worked in Mail since the Jurassic age. Text dragging in > general, though, works differently in Mac OS 9 versus Mac OS X. You > have to click on the selected text and wait very briefly (about 1/10 > of a second) then drag. This is to distinguish between dragging and > making a new selection. > I was fooled by cursor remaining I beam as it passed over text (before clicking). Thank you--removed a major-minor frustration. The other major-minor frustration is trying to edit subject line, and indeed text in body of received msg. This, so I can edit and store msgs with clearer subject lines, and only key text. Brian "No disassemble..." --Number Five