Hi Tylor, Hmmmm, well there isn't much you can do right now. Star Office requires X-Windows, and the Gnome desktop is not ready for prime-time yet. You could do worse than to learn Emacs and LaTeX. As for losing the formatting, that's part of the territory. I'd write all my stuff in emacs, then transfer it to MSWord when I got to school. You could do the final formatting there. BTW, formatting has two T's, short vowel and word ending in ING. Double T keeps the vowel short! Ann P. -- Ann K. Parsons email: akp at eznet.net WEB SITE: http://home.eznet.net/~akp "All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost." JRRT
