Services are implemented "free" as part of any Cocoa application. Services only work in Carbon applications like the Office suite if the programmers specifically implement the functionality. An example of a Carbon app that supports services is TextWrangler (and its big brother BBEdit). So you are correct that Microsoft is responsible for services not working in Office and IE. Norm --- Norman A. Cohen nacohen at mac.com "Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length." Robert Frost On Dec 24, 2005, at 11:38 AM, John Baltutis wrote: > Then, the disconnect must be between the microsloth stuff and > WordService. > Since WordService is available in other apps, I suspect the > microsloth stuff. I > haven't installed WordService, so I can't say why it doesn't show up.