Thanks Medicted60, I'll give it a shot.
As for compatibility mode, it's not available...no broken link to change. I did switch to standard editor mode and that did the trick.
AS you can see I now have the ability to create new lines and paragraphs. I would have never guessed in a million years it was the editor causing the problem. I'm wonder if that is also causing the problem with adding an attachment (picture) and it showing up as a link and not the actual picture.
Ah...many thanks again...