On 1/23/04 3:55 PM, "Charles Martin" <chasm at mac.com> wrote: > Uh, no. > > TextEdit, Appleworks, OpenOffice, Mariner Write, ICWord and quite a few > others are able to open and write MS Word files. TextEdit is included > with OS X. Appleworks is on most "consumer" macs (iMacs, eMacs, > iBooks). The others are either free or shareware. > > _Chas_ Except that the original poster said she is using 10.2.8, in which TextEdit does NOT open .doc files without help. -- Bruce ____________________________________________________ B R U C E K. klutch-at-erols.com