Tanglewood -

A couple of the open source wp programs are reported as being "pretty good." For normal users they may even be as good as prior versions of Word. Specific Word features that I've used a lot, and that I've looked at in a couple of them are not as useful as in older Word versions; but since some of those features have been removed, or others remain but don't work at all in Word 2007, further study is indicated.

For business reasons it probably is still necessary for us to keep some form of Microsoft Office functionality, but it's Lin's business and she's getting too old (and grumpy?) to work much anyhow - so the incentive is weakening.

John