When I us Outlook 2003 and start typing a NEW email, the TO bar allows me to fill in, the SUBJECT bar allows me to fill in, but when I get into the body to start my message, I type the cursor moves, but no visible type. The cursor seems to go to hour glass every 5 seconds AND the background on the message area appears to have a very faint box pattern that's barely visible. Any ideas what's going on?

Sorry is this seems to be a trivial question.

I do not have Outlook... but is there any chance you have set the font colour to match the background colour?
Sorry if this seems to be a trivial answer...

Problem solved: I made the stationery a very light color instead of <blank> and everything worked fine. Thanks for your reply.

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