This may sound very stupid, but while I was using excel 2004, I inadvertantly placed the formatting pallete just beyond the reach of my cursor at the bottom of the screen. Not sure how i managed to do this. It can be opened and close, but each time it drops down beyond my screen and possible use. I try and gra iwth the cursor, but no luck. you cannot seem to slect it seperately through a command key- only open and close it. So I tried to use different display settings to see if it will show up, but no luck. Of course, I could re-install it, but wondered if someone knew how to fix the problem before going that far.... thanks j __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/