Hi. Yes, you are sending messages with a black background. In Outlook I've just gone to "background" and arrowed to white, so this message should be looking OK now. Mind, a good example of what a screen reader does, as I was picking up the text alright, obviously! Cheers, From Ray I can be contacted off-list at: mailto:ray-48@xxxxxxxx -----Original Message----- Of Saqib Subject: [access-uk] Black text Hi all. I seem to be getting listers on other mailing listing telling me that my e-mails are black text on black. I did go in to the settings and changed one of the font to white but I don't know if this has made any difference. There is an tick box in the colour section I don't know weather to tick it or not. I am using windows mail. I do have the same problem in Outlook Express on my XP laptop.