Let me tell you that the same sort of thing happens between PC's depending upon which version of Word you use and which version of Windows are used by the PC's involved. If M$S had any desire to fix it, they would have done so long ago. On Tuesday, April 15, 2003, at 11:45 AM, Trevor J. Hutley wrote: > > Paul - thanks to you and everyone else for their input on this issue. > I ran some tests today with my friend, with mixed results. > > Many of his Word documents have embedded Excel files in them, and Word > Tables. > Once his files had been over email to my Ti-500 [see, it is on > topic.... :-) ]. opened and looked at by me in Office X, and back to > his PC via email, he said that the format of the tables and Excel > files was changed.