Increasingly frequently, I receive MS Word files as questionnaires. I'm told I can answer in the document and return by email, but often the document includes those "rate on a 1-5 or 1-9 scale" things where I'm supposed to circle the number to answer. How silly is that. Yes, there are drawing kludges in Word that will permit me to do it, but how many people know how to embed drawing layers on top of text, anchored to a certain point on the page - oh, wait - if it's anchored to the PAGE and the Word doc comes back to the writer who's used a different font, he may end up with results FAR worse than hanging chad! My understanding is that pdf's can be created such that they're DESIGNED to allow input from the reader (the carbon-based reader -- oops, I mean the human, living PERSON reader, not Adobe Reader carbonized). Actually, I guess I mean both; i.e., I've heard that the free Reader application allows the human person reading the pdf to make text and check-box responses to questionnaires. Is this correct, or does one need the full Acrobat application (the expensive one) to make ANY changes to a pdf? Jim Robertson --