> Plauins are available for Office 2003 as well... New OpenOffice > versions are able to handle them, but don't expect 100% > compatibility... > Being an admin of a department for the last 12+ years I can say that there has not been 100% compatibility between word versions (exact formatting is different between versions) so sometimes requiring an exact version of word to work is essential. In our case we are all fixed on word 2003 to avoid this problem. However this is only important if you need to collaborate between some other person who uses word. John