Hal,

Thanks for the response.  I looked through some of the other questions posed
in this forum and surprisingly found quite a few with same problem.   One
suggested that he ran the detect and repair function under "help" and that
cleared up his problem.  I tried that, but had difficultly getting the
function to work with the disk that came with my computer.  So I figured I
would just re-install Outlook, and that seemed to solve the problem.  
Unfortunately though, I dug a little deeper hole as I only reinstalled
outlook so I lost Word, Excel, Powerpoint, etc.   And now I am having
difficulty getting the disk to work to reinstall all of those.