First of all I'd like to thank all those who offered to help me through their experience and deep system knowledge. As soon as I have some time I really wish to download those MS-compatible fonts to supplement OO. But today I gave CrossOver a last try and miraculously it worked. The trick is to create a virtual mount-point for the CD where the files markes "hidden" by MS can be read by SuSE. Basically it's just the following command: # su # mount -t iso9660 -o unhide /dev/hdc /tmp/cd Choose the "Other" option on CrossOver graphic menu to lead it to install from an alternate CD location, namely '/tmp/cd'. This way MS Office/XP gets installed with no problem whatsoever. I tried to start both Power Point and Word from the CrossOver menu. They work the same as on Windows. I also downloaded MathType from: https://webmail.ornl.gov/redirect?http://www.dessci.com/en/products/mathtype... This is an add-on package that, when installed on Windows, is automatically hooked up to the MS Office programs. It help generating much better symbols and Greek letters. in math expressions. It's also very easy to use. What is downloaded is just a ".exe" file. Out of ignorance I accepted all the installation defaults whlie keeping my fingers crossed. Guess what .... When I then started Power Point from the CrossOver menu, and selected Insert->Object->MicroSoft Math Expression miraculously MathType graphic window popped up just as it does in a native Windows environment. The integration was performed automatically ... which I really did not expect ... Thank you again for all your help. Maura