Steve, This is a little loose: 80% of 16k are Word or Frame. How many Word? How many Frame? Word docs in a repository make me cringe. I have no faith that the vendor won't use the format as a competitive weapon, leaving me to pay the price (conversion, configuration, licensing, ...). That and the potential for viral payloads (even now) gives me the "heebee jeebees". Your place of work sounds like a utopian world of word savy users. I don't live in a place like that, no sir. Troy >>> sulrich at botwerks.org 06/05/02 11:03AM >>> i use these tools every day as do thousands of engineers in the company i work for. i have access to a document repository of 16k+ of highly formatted and structured documents, 80% of these documents are generated in word or my other favorite large document editor framemaker.