That looks interesting. I've also heard that Adobe now has 'Buzzword' for online collaboration -- apparently a little slicker than Google Docs in some respects. I would like to install Office 2003 -- but I don't want to do it if it is going to cause me trouble. It's a thing I need to use very rarely -- but I would like to have it on the few occasions I need it. I suppose what I could do is put it on a virtual machine? I need to make up my mind what to do about staying on Vista - - do I need to go back to XP for most of my work? I've never done the kind of OS/Data partitioning often advocated on this list -- though I used to keep data on completely different drives years ago. Maybe I should be doing more with partitioning . . . . but that still doesn't solve how I might be working with multiple OS's. I've been told that I can actually run OS X very successfully on my new Dell 1720 - - though it will be work. Lots of questions . . . .Bill, you might want to have a look at AbiWord. It's an open source Word-like app that claims: