Hi, there are many situations where OO does a great job. But at least as many where it doesn't, concerning imports from M$ Office. E. g. you just have to put some images with text wrapping around in your docs, OO will show the image above the text, without wrapping, in certain cases (dont know which). So I would recommend the hard way: For new docs use OO, for some or more you still have to use M$ Office or do some work with the M$ format to correct the docs. E. g. templates provided by your employer or the adminstration and so on could be made with OOo to introduce OOo for all. As long as there is no complete information about the M$ formats (and there never will as there are still newer versions to come), one should either save the data in open formats like RTF (I know about its restrictions of course) or use software that doesn't make you be dependant. Regards, Ré