->Actually, it depends on your needs. If you want an office app that ->presents a monolithic desktop then SO 5.2 is your app. If you want ->to have the parts of SO 5.2 broken out so you can access them without ->firing up the monolithic desktop then either SO 6.0 or Open Office ->6.0 will be the one. It's rather simple... OpenOffice = Mozilla StarOffice = Netscape One is just the development branch of the other. One has addons that the other does not for various reasons. ->KOffice hasn't quite come to gether yet, and it may be a while before ->it reaches the sophistication of Open Office 6.0. Meanwhile, IMO, ->Open Office 6.0 is the one to bet on for the next year or so. But, ->this question may have to be reviewed every year, because KDE and ->KOffice have a higher rate of development. Well, I downloaded and installed KOffice 1.1.1 and tried my luck with KWord and it opened everyone of my .doc files..too bad it couldn't open my .sdw files. *sigh* It is coming a long nicely though. This release seems to have fixed some of the stability issues I was seeing...who knows. BTW...No open source suite has to "win" .. it has to give you a choice. Use what you like.. Cheers! -----=====-----=====-----=====-----=====----- Ben Rosenberg mailto:ben@whack.org -----=====-----=====-----=====-----=====----- I'm out of my mind, but feel free to leave a message...