S-i-S

It's perfectly permissible to put your laptop on your tummy while you lie comfortably in bed - with your mouse on a book beside you, if that suits you. (A proper backrest is recommended, of course.)

Most laptops are an imperfect solution for people accustomed to a full keyboard and a mouse - ergonomic or otherwise. Just a tad better than no solution at all. I find that a brief session with the lap top cramps my brain - from constantly concentrating on not hitting the wrong (usually adjacent/multiple) key(s).

The method you mentioned, of opening a page edit, on my machine (with IE) gives me html - which is full of excess codes that would make later editing a real pain. If this is what you are getting ("it opens the page & creates lots of cute little thingies"), try changing the extension on the file you send to the office back to ".htm" - if that's not how it gets there. (Make a copy the first time, and change the copy.) It's likely that if you double click the ".htm" file in WinExplorer it will open in your web browser looking much like the original post, and you won't have to sort out what you want from all the "cute thingies."

You can probably get the same thing with a right-click in any blank spot on the web page, and selecting "view source" from the pop-up menu. Control-A to select all, Control-C to copy, and then open your word processor and Control-V to paste it.

Of course, since I don't use netscape, you may be getting something else entirely.

You can copy most things directly from a web page, just by highlighting what you want and Ctl-C or Edit-Copy, and then paste it directly to your word processor or notepad/wordpad. If you don't want links and stuff, in Word you can just "Edit" "PasteSpecial" as "UnformattedText."

Of course, any method you have for enjoying the 'cat is fine. If it works - use it.

John