I ws messing around with the Fonts selection in Mail on a new message the other day and somehow brought up a Character Palette, looked at it, thought I discarded it...but now the damn little thing has attached itself to my Menu bar in every application including Finder. I don't want it, but can't find any control that gets rid of it. Help, please? thanks, don hinkle, visual storyteller -------------------------------------- A book is a story for the mind. A song is a story for the soul. -Eric Pio, poet "Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunities for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults." (Eric Hoffer)