cats1 - if you go to the little "person" looking icon way up in the upper left just under the big ATP logo on any page, and click on it, that will take you to own profile page where you can change your settings. Click on "Change your Site Preferences," then "Automatically jump to the first unread post in threads?" If you change that to "yes" the site will automatically take you to the first post you have not seen in any thread in any forum - no matter if you last looked at it 2 years ago. Dave is a wizard!