eta: Thank you for your patience. My confusion owes partly to my advanced age perhaps approaching senility and partly to assumptions based on my galloping ignorance of the digital world. I had assumed that Mac was in charge of the editing rules within a response such as this and since Entourage is Mac's version of Microsoft's Outlook (while editing rules in the latter are derived although not necessarily transferable from Mac's version of Microsoft Word), I blamed Mac for the apparent glitch. But your post suggests that the editing rules here are instead set not by Bill or Mac but by AWAD and that my apparent difficulty is due to an unfamiliarity with WS' particular algorithm and that I'm just simply doing something wrong

Thanks also to the rest of you in your valiant attempts to deal with my incipient Alzheimer's. However, if anyone could suggest an easy way to transfer personal taskbar editing macros from Word to Entourage I'd be most grateful

dalehileman