Thank you Mac, that did the trick. Mark Des Cotes Systems Manager/Graphic Designer Astro Printing Service (Cornwall) Ltd. 3308 Second Street East Cornwall Ontario Canada K6H 6J8 T (613) 932-9281 Ext 106, F (613) 932-1052 www.astroprinting.com On 26-Jul-06, at 6:33 PM, Mac McIlvain wrote: > This happened to me last year. In addition to the black box, my > computer was speaking the text in the menu bars. It drove me > absolutely batty. After two days I was just about to reinstall my > complete system, when somehow I realized what it was. I don't > remember how I found it, but this is what has happened: > > One of the items in Universal Access has been turned on. You likely > hit the shortcut key combination to enable this option. > > Go to System Preferences/Universal Access/Seeing and turn VoiceOver > off and turn Zoom off. > > At 11:05 AM -0400 7/26/06, Mark Des Cotes wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> All of a sudden, while working in Quark Xpress this morning, a >> black box appeared on my screen. At first I thought it was a Quark >> issue but now I see it everywhere. While I'm typing this in Mail >> the "Send" button at the top left of the window has a black box >> around it. In some windows I can move the box by tabbing and shift >> tabbing. This box is NOT the highlight to say what field is >> selected. If I open the print window I have my normal blue >> highlight to tell me which field I can type into and I have a >> black box around the word "Printer:" at the top. This is getting >> very annoying. Any ideas what I might have done and how to get rid >> of it. >> > > _______________________________________________ > X4U mailing list > X4U at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/x4u > > Listmom is trying to clean out his closets! Vintage Mac and random > stuff: > http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984