> Also, I don't see why you don't just use OpenOffice.org... All those documents from the "dark side" are easily readable and importable, even the .blahx ones in OOo 3. > Being an administrator on a windows and linux network, I would have to say that this can be problematic. The main reason is formatting. Even though the file formats are readable we have found that mixing different versions of Microsoft Office does not even work reliably. I mean the positioning of tables, charts and graphics is not consistent unless all users use the same version of word. Also revision tracking does not work well across versions... John