Many thanks Christoph, Samuel, Jean-Luc and Jean-Fran?ois :-) For some mysterious reason, I was able to get InDesign to work yesterday - so I will take your suggestion and wait for next version of Scribus, so as to have the time to get used to it before being 'forced' to use it.
Old habits are hard to change, so I'll have to see how successful my current writer app (Nisus Writer Pro) is at saving .ods files. I use OpenOffice regularly and extensively for spreadsheets, but am not sure I want to move to it (or LibreOffice) for writing. Anyway, it's great to know about Scribus, and thank you for being so nice and willing to help! Ciao for now :-) marina --- Italy or Australia MacBook Pro 2.5 GHz Intel Core i5, OS X 10.9.5 MacBook Pro 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, OS X 10.6.8 www.mtadiello.com @martadiello
