Received my copy of Staroffice 6.0 today and have now installed on two computers using SuSE 7.3. Both computers had trouble with the OpenOffice 1.0 where any special characters from a MSWord document (such as hyphens and quotations) were replaced with a question mark by OO 1.0. The suggested font fixes did not solve the problem and both computers continued to use OO 641d, as collaboration with MS users is imperative. Staroffice 6.0 does not have the special character problem that OO exhibited on these two computers. In certain areas (power point to Presentations) the import of MS files into SO 6 is better than the OO 1.0 import of MS files. To install SO 6.0 on to SuSE 7.3 the Star Office 6 beta was removed, the new SO 6.0 was installed in /opt/staroffice6.0 with a network installation (-net), and then each user on each computer was given a local workstation setup. Installation was relatively fast, just a few minutes. setting up user parameters and individual settings was much longer. SO 6.0 is NOT a fast loading program as the writer, spreadsheet or presentation components each take about 10 to 15 seconds to load and are not faster on subsequent uses. With a couple of hours of use on each computer, Staroffice 6.0 and SuSE 7.3 appear to play well together as there have been no problems so far and the release version of SO 6.0 has noticeable improvements over the SO beta or the latest Openoffice. The linux version of SO6 does not have filters for Wordperfect or Lotus (have not tried the windows version yet). SO 6.0 does include the adabas database, JRE 1.3.1, an installation guide 71 pages and a user guide 460 pages. My wife has determined that the users guide is worth the cost of the software. SO 6.0 can be set up to print files directly to a *.pdf file. Hopefully next week when I try SO 6.0 with SuSE 8 it will work as well as on 7.3. -- Ralph Sanford - If your government does not trust you, rsanford@telusplanet.net - should you trust your government? DH/DSS Key - 0x7A1BEA01