Ben, thanks for the exciting suggestion---Unfortunately, the .doc is grayed out and can't be imported. But, the concept of using stickies will stay with me as alternative approach in the future. gail > > you might be able to open it in Stickies. > > Stickies can import word files... works a charm on current word files, > and a quick test gets very usable results from a Mac word 5.0 document. >