On Friday, January 17, 2003, at 05:20 PM, Pat D.Stephens wrote: > Can anyone tell me why the symbol for the Airport connection shows > sometimes, and not others? It just disappears at times from the top > list, but I'm still connected. One of the frequent complaints about OS X when it was first released was the size of the type in the menu bar (and the fact that you couldn't alter it). I find that some applications have so many (or so many long) menu items that they'll occasionally force the "status" icons off. My guess is this is probably what's happened to you. BRIAN/bpearce at cloud9.net