Hi, Our experience is that some of the kids don't like OO.o - prefering for no good reason 'Word'. The spreadsheet is as good as that other product - except maybe in the text formatting area. Macros are a problem. The presentation graphics tool is excellent and very easy to learn. The biggest problem is that it is a different vehicle to drive - especially as the menu structure is, by default, more logical - please can someone tell me why MS put page layout in the file menu where it does not belong? The kids keep winging about not being able to find it! The staff also complain because it is different. Again, no good reasons for dislike are ever offered. On the matter of machine speed and memory - the more the better - and even if you are not running LTSP it might be worth considering an application server for OO.o. We successfully use 100MHz clients to run the X session. We also run OO.o on our remaining MS machines - the major advantage of this is that it will sucessfully read file formats from all breeds of MS Office - something that, in my expereince, MS Office fails to do reliably. On the plus side, the performance of OO.o in our MS machines makes the Linux boxes look very fast :-) - as does the comparison between MS IE and the LTSP/Mozilla combination. ===== rgds, Richard Rothwell -------------------------------------------------------------------- rind (n) acronym for 'rind is not defined' ____________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly..."Ping" your friends today! Download Messenger Now http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/download/index.html