G'day again Siân,

Hmmm... It always worked on my past machines - and that goes back quite a few years - it is basic to ASCII coding. You have to hold down the alt key while typing all 4 characters or it doesn't work. I have a small shareware program that prints out all 256 characters for any selected font, as well as the codes. This is indispensible when I start mucking about with specialised faces like music characters.

I can't see the contacts that I had at the time of that Welsh TV episode (this is a work machine and all settings and non-core data were scorched to the ground when the IT horde went through before the dreaded Y2k non-event. (Well, not quite a NON-event ... Win 95 stopped talking to our intranet server on 1 January and we had to switch our core machines to NT to get back in there.)

I will check to see if the contact names and addresses are in my backup CD, but I remember that the bloke I was dealing with had to be contacted on someone else's email, so he either wasn't cyber-connected ... or wasn't permanent staff.

BTW: Oh Murray, if you're still out there ... sorry about the thread drift (I think the ASCII codes are a cross-drift), but it is all in a good cause!

Regards,

Bob Bolton