Ian,
if it's off topic then - oops - and we'll continue on QL-Chat instead. Have you tried OpenOffice.org yet. It can read (and write) M$Office format files quite happily and is a free download. I have it at home on Linux and on Windows (to replace our aged copy of M$Office) and we have no problems with it. A colleague at work has yet top find a Word doc that it cannot open - and he has some docs that even Word fails to open, but OOo just does it ! Try a download (big) from http://www.openoffice.org and be happy. (if the size puts you off, wait a couple of weeks for a PC magazine to give it away - Linux Format already did with the Linux version.) PS. The OOo version has Spreadsheet, Wordy Pro and Presentation built in, but no Database. I believe the DB stuff was proprietory, so you have to pay (Sun for Start Office) to get that feature. PPS. Not that Access counts as a proper database anyway :o) ------------------------------------- Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com ------------------------------------- This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must not use any information contained in it, nor copy it, nor inform any person other than Lynx Financial Systems or the addressees of its existence or contents. If you have received this email and are not a named addressee, please delete it and notify the Lynx Financial Systems IT Department on 0113 2892990.
