Flash,Looking at your setup, you might want to get rid of the practically useless ruler line. The function NR (no ruler) gets rid of it. Repeated func NR cyles through the the 3 possibilities. I have in my startup.int:Attached: screenshot showing how dates are rendered in box-standard Xy3.55.NR NR Gives you an extra line of text. FWIW. Harry Binswanger hb@xxxxxxxx