I saw George's posting on this and tried it out. I do not know why it has not worked for me. I had better say what I am doing in case I am doing it wrong then someone can correct me. I am Opening Note Pad. Writing LOG in all caps. Then pressing F5 and the Date and time are there. I am then doing Save As and Saving it to the Desktop. I replaced *txt with the name LOG. Then when go in to it from the Desktop and write something, no automatic date and time comes up. I closed and opened it again with the new info to see if it would work but still no date and time. What then am I doing wrong? Eleanor -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. We are a community of 6 million users fighting spam. SPAMfighter has removed 1333 of my spam emails to date. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len The Professional version does not have this message