Hah! That's a joke, right? "MS Office" and "portable" in the same sentence, what a hoot! Next you'll be telling me you believe MS will solve all their "document portability issues" with their "next- generation XML-based" formats. Heh! Like they won't find some way to mess that up... I think I may understand, though. What business person worth their salt would be caught dead without their virus laden *.doc, *.xls, and *.mdb files? Not many, I'd guess. >>> blutgens at sistina.com 08/30/01 10:56AM >>> and if the documents it creates are not "portable" to the de-facto standard (which for the most part is MS Office) it's as useless as star office, abi, koffice, and all the rest.