Hi, > Some ms-office compatibility is nice, fortunately openoffice is not > needed for that. I chuck the .doc/.rtf at abiword, and gnumeric handles > the excel stuff. About a hundred times faster than openoffice, which > I only ever use to read the _openoffice_ documents people occationally > send me. But abiword doesn't support doc/rtf-files as good as openoffice does. There are lots of misrepresentations here... sigi.